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.

Zami

AUDRE LORDE

Penguin Classics

Sister Outsider (penguin Modern Classics)

This unique new thematic composition reader brings together 6 key texts from the past and multiple contemporary reverberations to engage students in some of today’s most significant cultural conversations.

Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past

Politics & Social Sciences

ALICE WALKER

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

BELL HOOKS

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois

Virginia, Woolf

Anthropology

Bedford/St.Martin's

Chosen poems, old and new

“Here are the words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be,” writes Audre Lorde of this volume, in which she brings together many of the most important poems she has written over the past thirty years.Chosen Poems is also, Lorde says, “a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited.” Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People Live, New York Head Shop and Museum, and Coal. “Only the worlds of Africa scrutinized in The Black Unicorn, too complex for excerpt, have been excluded.” The volume also includes seven new poems. As Adrienne Rich has written, Lorde, “for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet.” Chosen Poems will provide for Lorde’s readers, both old and new, another proof of this continuing truth.

Chosen Poems, Old and New

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

“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

Zami : A New Spelling of My Name

Biographies & Memoirs

Pandora Press

“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

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Reference

Crossing Press

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 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. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992."Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet."—Adrienne Rich"This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me."—Alice Walker

The Cancer Journals

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sheba Feminist Press

The Lesbian Path

Joan Nestle

Sandy Boucher

Minnie Bruce Pratt

Barbara Grier

Ruth Baetz

Pat Parker

Maree Martin

Matile Poor

Judith Niemi

Subterranean Co

Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader is a groundbreaking anthology on the role of communication in the construction and performance of sexualities in interpersonal contexts and in public discourses. Editors Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins bring together an interdisciplinary collection which include excerpts from foundational works, recent journal articles, and original pieces written specifically for this text.

Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader

Jonathan Ned Katz

Jeffrey Weeks

Sara Salih

E. Patrick Johnson

William Leap

Lisa M. Diamond

Michele J. Eliason

Terry Tafoya

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Audre Lorde pioneered "biomythography" in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, originally published in 1982. In this extraordinary tale, Lorde weaves a narrative tapestry out of the threads of her own life—from her family's immigration to New York through her own coming of age—and the lives of the women who shaped her.As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard productions of Audre Lorde's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview added to your library.James Atlas interviews Elizabeth Alexander about the life and work of Audre Lorde.

Community & Culture

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