Lorde, Audre
Lorde, Audre( 1934–92), poet.Born in New York City of West Indian parents, Lorde was educated at the National University of Mexico, Hunter College, and Columbia University. The main themes of her fiery verse are love, race, and being female, with a feminist agenda. Among her books of verse are The New York Head Shop and Museum (1974); Coal (1976); The Black Unicorn (1978), containing poems about Africa; and Our Dead Behind Us (1986). Her prose works include The Cancer Journals (1980), about her fight to overcome the disease; Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), which she calls a “biomythography”; Sister Outsider (1984); and Burst of Light (1988). Her last work is The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, Poems 1987–1992.
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