The collected poems of Audre Lorde
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Contributors
Lorde, Audre Author
ISBN
9780393319729
9780393254402
9780393040906
9780393254402
9780393040906
Subjects
Subjects
African American feminists
African American feminists -- Poetry
African American lesbians
African American lesbians -- Poetry
African American women
African American women -- Poetry
American poetry
American poetry -- 20th century
Child rearing
Child rearing -- Poetry
Feminism
Feminism -- Poetry
Fiction
Group identity
Group identity -- Poetry
Lesbianism
Lesbianism -- Poetry
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
Motherhood
Motherhood -- Poetry
Poetry
African American feminists -- Poetry
African American lesbians
African American lesbians -- Poetry
African American women
African American women -- Poetry
American poetry
American poetry -- 20th century
Child rearing
Child rearing -- Poetry
Feminism
Feminism -- Poetry
Fiction
Group identity
Group identity -- Poetry
Lesbianism
Lesbianism -- Poetry
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
Motherhood
Motherhood -- Poetry
Poetry
Table of Contents
From the Book
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.
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