"This Ixia Press edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Firebrand Books, Ithaca, New York, in 1988. A Foreword by Sonia Sanchez has been ...

ESSAYS -- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, p.1 -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury, p.7 -- Scratching the Surface : Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving, p.12 -- Uses of the Erotic ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is what scholar and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs likes to call a “quantum biography.” To understand Audre Lorde’s ...

Audre Lorde was born in New York City and was a prolific writer and poet whose work addressed the state of the world, confronted inequities, and brought to light the tossing aside of Black queer women ...