During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poet’s estate and numerous interviews, Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lorde’s iconic status, charting her conservative childhood in Harlem; her early marriage to a… Read More →
On The Pulse of Morning by Dr. Maya Angelou
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Beauty is a Verb edited by J. Bartlett, S. Black, M. Northen
The New Poetry of Disability Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of each poet included. The collection explores first the precursors whose poems… Read More →
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New by Audre Lorde
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New covers 30 years of Lorde’s poetry. Here, Lorde demonstrates her mastery of the love poem, but she writes with equal passion and eloquence about everything from a conversation to her identity as a black woman. Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Published 1982 Pages 205 Category Poetry Library Cross… Read More →
To Be the Poet by Maxine Hong Kingston
“I have almost finished my long book,” Maxine Hong Kingston declares. “Let my life as a Poet begin… I won’t be a workhorse anymore; I’ll be a skylark.” To Be the Poet is Kingston’s manifesto, the avowel and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose,… Read More →