I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power.
'Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... which blaze and pulse on the page' Adrienne Rich
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The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'
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From the House of Yemanja |
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A Rock Thrown Into the Water Does Not Fear the Cold |
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The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors |
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At First I Thought You Were Talking About ... |
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A Song for Many Movements |
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The Same Death Over and Over, Or, Lullabies Are for Children |
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A Woman/Dirge for Wasted Children |
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Pathways: From Mother to Mother |
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Bicentennial Poem #21,000,000 |
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But What Can You Teach My Daughter |
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From Inside an Empty Purse |
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`Never Take Fire from a Woman' |
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Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.
