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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
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A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay. Among the essays included here are: • "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" • "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" • "I Am Your Sister" • Excerpts from the American Book Award–winning A Burst of Light The poems are drawn from Lorde's nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are: • "Martha" • "A Litany for Survival" • "Sister Outsider" • "Making Love to Concrete"
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"An essential anthology that challenges our 21st-century social and political consciousness."
"To read Lorde is to begin the work of unmanacling and decolonizing one's mind, to begin the urgent work of learning how all things—identities, prejudices, systems, histories, desires—are linked."
"Any opportunity to contemplate Lorde would be a cause for celebration."
"The sublime choices of Lorde's poetry include the haunting 'Martha,' written during a former lover's recuperation after a car accident, and 'Father Son and Holy Ghost,' which beautifully records a childhood memory of her father returning from work, 'Misty from the worlds business/ Massive and silent as the whole day's wish.' Readers new to Lorde's work couldn't ask for a better introduction, and those already familiar will find this an ideal collection of her greatest hits."
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