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Audre Lorde (Author), Roxane Gay (Editor, With an Introduction by)

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This inherent reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected 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 Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House"
• "I Am Your Sister"
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  More than 25 years after her too-early death, many of the issues Lorde advocated for and articulated in her work are once again capturing national attention and demanding action. The ever-thoughtful, often brilliant Lorde hasn’t always received the notice she deserves. Ideally, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, edited by one of her artistic progenies, the author Roxane Queer , will right that wrong.

  Robert Wiebezahl • BookPage

  Any opportunity to contemplate Lorde would be a result in for celebration. “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde,” edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, arrives at an especially interesting moment, however. Lorde’s writing has rarely been more influential — or more misunderstood.

  Paul Sehgal • New York Times

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  Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader 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 influential contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Lgbtq+. 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"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

  The obvious yet startling element of Audre Lorde’s prose, poems and cancer journals is that her words inspire still-needed revolution even now. In “The Uses of Anger” (), for instance, Lorde argued that we were  “working in a context of disagreement and threat, the bring about of which is certainly not the angers which lie between us, but rather that virulent hatred leveled against all women, people of Color, lesbians and gay men, impoverished people – against all of us who are seeking to examine the particulars of our lives as we resist our oppressions, moving toward coalition and effective action.” She embodied intersectionality in a way that still sings.

  But there’s another, more personal layer to Lorde. As I sat each evening with new-to-me and favorite essays such as “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” her words tapped at my brain like jewelers’ hammers. They remind us that we are here for only so long, and what are we going to do about it? There’s no sugarcoating here, not for society and not for herself.

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