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Audre Lorde

Born February 18, 1934Died November 17, 1992

writer and activist

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Books31

Cables to Rage

Cables to Rage

Une merveilleuse arithmetique de la distance: Poemes 1987-1992

Une merveilleuse arithmetique de la distance: Poemes 1987-1992

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Die Quelle unserer Macht

Die Quelle unserer Macht

2020
When I Dare to Be Powerful

When I Dare to Be Powerful

2020
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

2018
"I Teach Myself in Outline": Notes, Journals, Syllabi and an Excerpt from Deotha

"I Teach Myself in Outline": Notes, Journals, Syllabi and an Excerpt from Deotha

2017
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

2017
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

1997
The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals

The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals

1996
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992

1993
A Burst of Light: Essays

A Burst of Light: Essays

1988
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

1988
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

1986
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

1985
Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties

Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties

1985
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities

I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities

1985
Irma Outsider: ensaios e conferencias

Irma Outsider: ensaios e conferencias

1984
La hermana, la extranjera: Articulos y conferencias

La hermana, la extranjera: Articulos y conferencias

1984
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde

Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde

1984

with James Baldwin

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984
Siostra Outsiderka. Eseje i przemowienia

Siostra Outsiderka. Eseje i przemowienia

1984
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

1982
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New

Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New

1982
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

1981
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

1980
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

1978
The black unicorn

The black unicorn

1978
La Licorne Noire

La Licorne Noire

1978
Between Our Selves

Between Our Selves

1976
Coal

Coal

1976

Collections2

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

1994

with Christina Rossetti, Rita Mae Brown, Jewelle L. Gomez, Katherine Mansfield, Sigmund Freud, H.D., Maria Edgeworth, Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

1976