Chosen Poems (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Audre Lorde
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Self-discovery, Racism, Sexism, Blacks, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Self, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women
Form and Content
Chosen Poems: Old and New consists of seven previously unpublished poems and ninety-two poems reprinted from Lorde’s five earliest collections: The First Cities (1968), Cables to Rage (1970), From a Land Where Other People Live (1973), New York Head Shop and Museum (1974), and Coal (1976). Written over a period of thirty-two years, the poems selected for this volume reflect Lorde’s changing self-definitions, or what she describes in a brief preface as “some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to...
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