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100 Queer Poems (Paperback)
Andrew McMillan, Mary Jean Chan; Contributions by Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, …
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Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer
Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and
visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston
Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.
Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few
decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100
Queer Poems presents an electrifying range of writing from the
twentieth century to the present day. Questioning and redefining
what we mean by a 'queer' poem, you'll find inside classics by
Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, Charlotte Mew and
June Jordan, central contemporary figures such as Mark Doty,
Jericho Brown, Carol Ann Duffy, Kei Miller, Kae Tempest, Natalie
Diaz and Ocean Vuong, alongside thrilling new voices including Chen
Chen, Richard Scott, Harry Josephine Giles, Verity Spott and Jay
Bernard. Curated by two widely acclaimed poets, Mary Jean Chan and
Andrew McMillan, 100 Queer Poems moves from childhood and
adolescence to forging new homes and relationships with our chosen
families, from urban life to the natural world, from explorations
of the past to how we find and create our future selves. It
deserves a place on the shelf of every reader keen to discover and
rediscover how queer poets speak to one another across the
generations.
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.
'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.
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
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 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"
Excerpts from the American Book Award-winning A Burst of Light The
poems are drawn from Lorde's nine volumes, including The Black
Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other
People Live. Among them are: "Martha" "A Litany for Survival"
"Sister Outsider" "Making Love to Concrete"
The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a
critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems,
stories, and essays. Choice Words collects essential voices that
renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights.
Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and
centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people
reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. These
essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political
power of defying shame. Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne
Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol
Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria
Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith
Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy
West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly
Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago,
Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin,
and Vi Khi Nao.
A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice
Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the
struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making,
the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies
the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their
abortion experiences. These essays, poems, and prose are a
testament to the profound political power of defying shame.
Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie
Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima,
Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston
Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany
L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago, Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin
Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin, and Vi Khi Nao.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 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, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through
teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship,
work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing,
always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous,
life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian,
mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape. 'Her work
shows us new ways to imagine the world ... so many themes of
Audre's work have endured' Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No
Longer Talking to White People About Race 'I came across Audre
Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found
her. She was an inspiration' Jackie Kay
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.
'Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a
lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and
healing, nightmare and lucidity ... which blaze and pulse on the
page' Adrienne Rich
'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to
accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New
Statesman 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. 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. '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
"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"
"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." Adrienne Rich
"The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took
place in these poems, and set the terms beautifully, forcefully for
contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate." Publishers Weekly
"This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best
contemporary poets. . . . Her poems are powerful, often political,
always lyrical and profoundly moving." Chuckanut Reader Magazine
"What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius
. . . you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and
beauty of this volume." Out Magazine"
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.
. . ."
Reviews..".it's been almost a quarter of a century since Audre
Lorde's essays and speeches in Sister Outsider made an indelible
mark on 20th-century literature. But the words of the black lesbian
feminist poet seem as lyrical and unforgettable, and, sadly, as
relevant today as when she first tackled everything from racism and
homophobia to ageism and class dichotomies. A must-have book that
every lesbian should read."--Curve Editor's Pick "Lorde was a
brilliant feminist poet and intellectual whose theories on the
power of embracing our internal contradictions as well as the
differences between people and groups is the way to powerful
coalition building and social progress." --New York Post, Sunday
"Poet and librarian Lorde collected 15 of her finest essays and
speeches in this 1984 volume. With her poet's command of language,
she addresses sexism, racism, black women, black lesbians,
eroticism, and more. Still powerful."--Library Journal, Starred
Review"Audre Lorde is a passionate sage. I say 'is' and not 'was'
because her keen insights continue to provoke and sustain us and
give us courage. The reissue of this book is a gift to longtime
admirers and to new readers who have yet to discover the power and
grace and splendid audacity of Audre Lorde."--Valerie Miner, author
of After Eden and professor of feminist studies at Stanford
University" Lorde's] works will be important to those truly
interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."--New
York Times
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "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."
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished in an oral tradition, which also blaze and pulse on the page, beneath the reader's eye."
In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating forceactivism."
As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survivor, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems."
"In poetry that is a compelling for its ethical vision as for its language, Lorde dares to imagine a changes world."San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
"In these poems Lorde reveals a new maturity through language denser and richer than she has used previously. The anger she expresses comes from an awareness of sufferingboth current . . . and past . . . but is balanced by a tenderness born of love."Library Journal
Revised
"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process. readers new to Lorde's work will meet here a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives. Readers of The Black Unicorn, Sister Outsider, The Cancer Journals, A Burst of Light, and Our Dead Behind Us, and the thousands who have attended her poetry readings and speeches, will recognize in this book the roots and the growing-points of a transformative writer. Never has a poet left so clear and conscious a track of artistic choices made in the trajectory of a life. Far from rewriting old poems to fit a changes historical moment, she has finely rehoned formal elements to illuminate the original poems. Throughout, Lorde's lifelong themes of love and anger, family politics, sexuality, and the body of the city can be seen gathering in power and clarity."Adrienne Rich
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.
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