The collected poems of Audre Lorde /
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde celebrates the undeniable voice of a woman who wrote, in the words of Adrienne Rich, "poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America ... The...
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New York :
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- The first cities (1968)
- Cables to rage (1970)
- From a land where other people live (1973)
- New York Head Shop and Museum (1974)
- Coal (1976)
- Between our selves (1976)
- The black unicorn (1978)
- (New poems from) Chosen poems: old and new (1982)
- Our dead behind us (1986)
- The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993).
- The first cities (1968): Memorial II
- "I die for all mysterious things"
- A family resemblance
- Coal
- What my child learns of the sea
- Now that I am forever with child
- Bridge through my windows
- Second spring
- Spring III
- Gemini
- To a girl who knew what side her
- Bread was buttered on
- Nightstone
- Father Son and Holy Ghost
- Pirouette
- Generation
- Echo
- Oaxaca
- Father, the year is fallen
- If you come softly
- Suffer the children
- A child shall lead
- A lover's song
- Return
- Suspension
- Cables to rage (1970): Rites of passage
- Summer oracle
- Song
- Spring people
- Rooming houses are old women
- Bloodbirth
- After a first book
- Martha
- And what about the children
- The dozens
- The woman thing
- A poem for a poet
- Conversation in crisis
- Sowing
- Making it
- On a night of the full moon
- Fantasy and conversation
- Dreams bite ...
- From a land where other people live (1973): For each of you
- The day they eulogized Mahalia
- Equinox
- Progress report
- Good mirrors are not cheap
- Black mother woman
- As I grow up again
- The seventh sense
- New Year's day
- Teacher
- Moving out or the end of
- Cooperative living
- Moving in
- Neighbors
- Change of season
- Generation II
- Love, maybe
- Relevant is different
- Points on the circle
- Signs
- Conclusion
- A song of names and faces
- Movement song
- The winds of Orisha
- Who said it was simple
- Dear Toni
- Prologue
- New York head shop and museum (1974): New York City 1970
- To my daughter the junkie on a train
- To Desi as Joe as smoky the lover of 115th Street
- The American Cancer Society
- A sewerplant grows in Harlem
- A birthday memorial to Seventh Street
- One year to life on Grand Central shuttle
- The workers rose on May day
- Cables to rage
- Keyfood
- A trip on the Staten Island ferry
- My fifth trip to Washington ended In Northeast Delaware
- Now
- To the girl who lives in a tree
- Barren
- Hard love rock #II.
- Memorial IV
- Love poem
- Mentor
- The fallen
- Separation
- Even
- Memorial III from a phone booth on Broadway
- And don't think I won't be waiting
- For my singing sister
- Monkeyman
- Naturally
- Song for a thin sister
- Release time
- Revolution is one form of social change
- Oya
- All hallows eve
- Ballad from childhood
- Times change and we change with them
- To Marie, in flight
- The bees
- Viet-nam addenda
- Visit to a city out of time
- The brown menace
- Sacrifice
- Blackstudies
- Coal (1976): Rites of passage
- Father Son and Holy Ghost
- Coal
- Rooming houses are old women
- The woman thing
- Oaxaca
- Summer oracle
- Generation
- A family resemblance
- Song
- On a night of the full moon
- Now that I am forever with child
- What my child learns of the sea
- Spring people
- Poem for a poet
- Story books on a kitchen table
- Pirouette
- Hard love rock
- Father the year has fallen
- Gemini
- Bridge through my window
- Conversations in crisis
- The maiden
- When the saints come marching in
- On midsummer's eve
- Dreams bite
- Suspension
- A child shall lead
- Afterlove
- The dozens
- And what about the children
- For the king and queen of summer
- Fantasy and conversation
- Paperweight
- Martha
- Memorial I
- Memorial II
- The songless lark
- Anniversary
- Second spring
- To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on
- Between our selves (1976): Power
- School note
- Solstice
- Scar
- Between ourselves
- Outside
- A woman/dirge for wasted children
- The black unicorn (1978): The black unicorn
- A woman speaks
- From the house of Yemanja
- Coniagui women
- A rock thrown into the water does not fear the cold
- Dahomey
- 125th Street and Abomey
- The women of Dan
- Sahara
- Harriet
- Chain
- Sequelae
- For Assata
- At first I thought you were
- Talking about ...
- A litany for survival
- Meet
- Seasoning
- Touring
- Walking our boundaries
- Eulogy for Alvin Frost
- Chorus
- Coping.
- To Martha: a New Year
- In Margaret's garden
- Scar
- Portrait
- A song for many movements
- Brother Alvin
- School note
- Digging
- Outside
- Therapy
- The same death over and over
- Ballad for ashes
- A woman/dirge for wasted children
- Parting
- Timepiece
- Fog report
- Pathways: from mother to mother
- Death dance for a poet
- Dream/songs from the moon of Beulah Land I-V
- Recreation
- Woman
- Timing
- Ghost
- Artisan
- Letter for Jan
- Bicentennial poem # 21,000,000
- The old days
- Contact lenses
- Lightly
- Hanging fire
- But what can you teach my daughter
- From inside an empty purse
- A small slaughter
- From the greenhouse
- Journeystones I-XI
- About religion
- Sister outsider
- Bazaar
- Power
- Eulogy
- "Never take fire from a woman"
- Between ourselves
- Future promise
- The Trollop maiden
- Solstice
- A glossary of African names used in the poems
- (New poems from) Chosen poems: Old and new (1982): The evening news
- Za Ki Tan ke parlay lot
- Afterimages
- A poem for women in rage
- October
- Sister, morning is a time for miracles
- Need: a choral of black women's voices
- Our dead behind us (1986): Sisters in arms
- To the poet who happens to be black and the black poet who happens to be a woman
- Outlines
- Stations
- Equal opportunity
- Soho cinema
- Vigil
- Berlin is hard on colored girls
- This urn contains earth from German
- Concentration camps
- Mawu
- Fishing the white water
- On the edge
- Naming the stories
- Diaspora
- The horse casts a shoe
- Reins
- Wood has no mouth
- A meeting of minds
- The art of response
- From the cave
- A question of climate
- Out to the hard road
- Every traveler has one Vermont poem
- For Judith
- For Jose and Regina
- Beverly's poem
- Big apple circus
- Florida
- Home
- Burning the water hyacinth
- Political relations
- Learning to write
- On my way out I pass
- Over you and the Verrazano Bridge
- Out of the wind
- Holographs
- There are no honest poems.
- About dead women
- A question of essence
- For the record
- Ethiopia
- Generation III
- Never to dream of spiders
- Beams
- Call
- The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993): Smelling the wind
- Legacy
- hers
- Making love to concrete
- Echoes
- Domino
- Thaw
- Party time
- Prism
- Do you remember Laura
- Inheritance
- His
- The one who got away
- Depreciation
- Syracuse airport
- Thanks to Jesse Jackson
- Judith's fancy
- Production
- Building
- jessehelms
- Dear Joe
- Women on trains
- The politics of addiction
- Kitchen linoleum
- Oshun's table
- Parting
- Peace on earth
- Restoration: a memorial-9/18/91
- Starting all over again
- What it means to be beautiful
- Hugo I
- Construction
- Speechless
- For Craig
- East Berlin
- The night-blooming Jasmine
- Girfriend
- Lunar eclipse
- Change
- Today is not the day
- The electric slide boogie.