After an English teacher rejected one of her poems, Lorde submitted it to Seventeen magazine – it became her first professional publication.Īfter working a variety of jobs in New York and Connecticut, Lorde studied for a year at the National University of Mexico in Cuernavaca. She graduated from Hunter High School, where she edited the literary magazine.

She once commented, “I used to speak in poetry.when I couldn’t find the poems to express the things I was feeling, that’s what started me writing poetry.” She was around 12 or 13 at the time. Lorde connected with poetry from a young age. As a child, Lorde dropped the “y” from her first name to become Audre. She was the youngest of three sisters and grew up in Manhattan.

A prominent member of the women’s and LGBTQ rights movements, her writings called attention to the multifaceted nature of identity and the ways in which people from different walks of life could grow stronger together.Īudrey Geraldine Lorde was born on Februto Frederic and Linda Belmar Lorde, immigrants from Grenada. The spine remains undamaged.Poet and author Audre Lorde used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black lesbian woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour.

Wir haben Ihnen weitere Exemplare dieses Titels unten aufgelistet.įrom the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.

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