Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York TimesIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and pro...

"Noire, lesbienne, mère, guerrière, poétesse", c’est ainsi que se présentait Audre Lorde (1934-1992), grande poétesse militante afro-américaine. Présentée ici dans une édition bilingue, cette Merveilleuse arithmétique de la distance exprime sans fard les différentes facettes d’une femme en mouvement, en quête de libération et de sororité. Parfois sensuels, érotiques, ses mots se font soudain politiques, échos des luttes sociales. Écrit pendant sa lutte contre un cancer du sein, ce recueil ...

**Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.A Penguin Classic**First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of co...

From 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.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. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell t...

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includ...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs

A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets."These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best contemporary poets. . . . Her poems ar...

In Sister Outsider neemt Audre Lorde seksisme, racisme, leeftijdsdiscriminatie, homofobie en klassenwaan onder de loep. Haar essays laten zien hoe ingewikkeld identiteit is. Aan de hand van voorbeelden en anekdotes uit haar eigen leven onderzoekt ze welke barrières vrouwen tegenkomen en hoe daarmee om te gaan. Lorde geloofde in het erkennen en begrijpen van verschillen als drijvende kracht voor de vrouwenbeweging. De zwarte, feministische, lesbische schrijver en dichter had een uitzonderli...

I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled 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.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten aliveA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, lif...

Per la prima volta in traduzione italiana, questa antologia dà spazio alle poesie di amore e di lotta di una poeta, Audre Lorde, che ha saputo intrecciare le storie del proprio vissuto personale con le voci collettive dei movimenti femminista, Lgbt e delle persone di colore. Con il suo potente linguaggio poetico, Lorde ci regala istantanee della realtà filtrate attraverso uno sguardo acuto e mai distaccato. Nei suoi versi erompe il racconto di una donna Nera, lesbica, madre, guerriera, poe...

'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our ...