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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde | Audre Lorde
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A definitive selection of Audre Lordes "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 poemsselected 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 Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House" "I Am Your Sister" Excerpts from the American Book Awardwinning A Burst of Light The poems are drawn from Lordes 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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Portsidelib
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This is a crash course on Lorde‘s essays, speeches, poetry and more. A fascinating look at her mind at its most pointed - during keynote speeches and public appearances, to its more casual (still powerful and brilliant) journal passages from her time battling liver cancer. It‘s a multi-faceted look at an artist whose body of work is still so vital to our collective learning and advancement. Please read more Audre Lorde.

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#Bookhaul #supportIndiebookstores #Indie #CapeCod #Brewster #sisters

We always stop in this bookstore, The Brewster Bookstore, when on the Cape. Just a short walk for our favorite coffee shop, The Snowy Owl.

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Nute
Nute
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#ShowSomeLove - Fave Black Author: Unapologetically female. Unapologetically black. Unapologetically intelligent. Unapologetically feminist. Unapologetically lesbian. Simply UNAPOLOGETIC about WHO and WHAT and EVERYTHING she was! She spoke her truth without fear and told her-story without compromise!
Her words on poetry:👇🏽

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Nute “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized.”👇🏽 4y
Nute “As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny, and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.”👇🏽 4y
sarahbarnes ❤️❤️💪🏽💪🏽 4y
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Nute “For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”👇🏽 4y
Nute “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.” GLOW ON, Audre...GLOW ON!👇🏽 (edited) 4y
TheKidUpstairs A powerful, inspirational woman. 💗❤💗❤ 4y
Nute Some of my fellow Littens might realize that this is a HUGE step for me because it is usually Toni Morrison - ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, EVERYTHING FAVORITE!🥰 4y
PurpleyPumpkin Beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing!💜 4y
Leftcoastzen I absolutely agree! Great post.Her intelligence and fearlessness was amazing. 4y
Come-read-with-me Stacked! 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for sharing!! 4y
BarbaraBB Love this post!! She is so inspiring 🤍 4y
S3V3N ❤️❤️❤️ 4y
TheBookHippie I love her. 4y
TheBookHippie This one is my favorite
[tagged book]The Black Unicorn: Poems
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Nute @sarahbarnes @TheKidUpstairs @PurpleyPumpkin @Leftcoastzen @Come-read-with-me @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @BarbaraBB @BeaG @TheBookHippie I love the instruction from her to look closely at what we allow to shine into our lives as women because we will reflect that source. It is from this light that we will draw our strength and ‘magic‘ as we become our full realized selves. I am happy to be in the company of you strong intelligent women!💕 4y
Nute @TheBookHippie Excellent choice to have as a favorite book by her. We must talk things over one day!😊 4y
S3V3N @Nute I love it!!! 4y
TheBookHippie @Nute oh I‘m so glad you liked it!!!! 💕💕💕yes my wandering will begging again after Covid maybe I can wander your way! 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I stacked both 📚 4y
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ReadingEnvy
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Except for a brief book of correspondence between Lorde and Pat Parker, I didn't really know Lorde's work, just as a reference point for other poets and thinkers. This is a solid introduction to her work, half essays and speeches, half selections from poetry collections spanning her career. The power she speaks from cannot be compared (and how frustrating that her writing from the 80s feels so timely, a bad sign that truly little has changed.) ⤵️

ReadingEnvy She speaks openly about being black, a feminist, and a lesbian, and is ready to confront your hangups about any of it. She is not going to make you feel comfortable. The journal of her second bout with cancer is also included.⤵️ 4y
ReadingEnvy The poems wrestle with history but also react to current events (now historical), praise her lover's body, and address the black community as well. When she hints at how she feels she is relearning rather than seeing this all for the first time, it feels true. 4y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 4y
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