Le recueil Black Unicorn, écrit en 1978, occupe au sein de ses écrits poétiques une place particulière. La poète apparaît sous toutes les facettes de sa féminité, comme fille, mère, amante, poète, militante.
Ces poèmes d'amour évoquent l'apogée d'un désir, empreint de rage et d'une sensualité que la prise de conscience aigüe des discriminations subies ne parviendra pas à brider. À la fois charnels et érotiques, ces poèmes renouent avec une spiritualité ancestrale.
Un souvenir revient dans les écrits d'Audre Lorde. C'est l'hiver à New York. Audre est dans le métro avec sa mère. Emmitouflée, elle est assise à côté d'une dame en manteau de fourrure. Elle regarde la dame, blanche, qui d'une main rageuse retire le pan de manteau qui effleure l'enfant. Une enfant Noire qui ne comprend pas et cherche désespérément un cafard, une poussière, bref une saleté justifiant ce geste.
Quelque chose pour ne pas réaliser que la saleté... c'est elle. Ensuite, le regard rageur de la dame blanche qui tue l'enfant Noire de cinq ans parce qu'elle ne peut pas le nommer : le regard du racisme. Un souvenir vrillé en elle, plus qu'une douleur, une souffrance indélébile qui permet à la poète adulte d'affirmer qu'au fond, en Amérique, on ne veut pas que les Noir-e-s vivent. Audre a vécu, survécu, pour nous dire son "amérique", ses passions, ses colères, dans une série d'écrits lumineux.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The 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 includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. 'The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it's ever been' Guardian
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 world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.>
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.
A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer'' Jackie Kay, New Statesmanbr>br>The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.br>br>Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and self-acceptance. br>br>''Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet'' Adrienne Richbr>br>''This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me'' Alice Walker>
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic Filled 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.
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 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.
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is... [Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware. -- New York Times
Une anthologie illustrée des poèmes de Audre Lorde, poétesse incontournable des luttes intersectionnelles ! Militante, prophétique, brûlante, sensuelle : la poésie de Audre Lorde est une explosion en plein coeur.
Cet ouvrage met en relation les géo-bio-mytho-graphies de trois figures féminines dissidentes qui ont affecté le panorama des états-Unis pendant les années 1970 et 1990 : les écrivaines-professeures-féministes-militantes lesbiennes Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldùa et Paula Gunn Allen. Issues respectivement de la tradition afro-américaine, chicana et amérindienne, elles ont joué un rôle essentiel dans l'histoire et le développement des féminismes transnationaux et de la culture queer. La lecture et l'analyse des trois essais traduits dans ce volume permettent de dégager les caractéristiques de la communauté trans-ethnique des Third world women writers.
«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
