Home › Books › The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
by
56/99
Critics' Rating Index
99/99
Readers' Rating Index
95/99
Scholars' Citation Index
51/99
Volume of Reviews
62/99
Volume of Reader Ratings
Sign in to add to your shelf, rate, or review this book.
About This Book
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"
Reviews
"I longed only for context and more restitution ..."
"The prose portion also features selections from Lorde's intense and deeply affecting journals written over the years she battled cancer."
"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."
"That the author's masterful work is as relevant and necessary today as it was in the last century is both a tribute to her and a condemnation of a society that continues to oppress and marginalize black women ..."
Preview
Reader Reviews
0 reviewsSign in to write a review.
No reader reviews yet. Be the first!