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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 listeners
Selfdescribed black lesbian mother warrior poet Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentiethcentury literature and one of the first to center the experiences of black queer women This essential collection 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 and 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 and Making Love to Concrete
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