by Audre Lorde
Recommended by Alexandria OcasioCortez
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Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and most influential poets, representing the complete oeuvre of Audre Lorde's poetry. Lorde published nine volumes of poetry which, in her words, detail "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inh...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Poetry, Most Recommended Books, and Poetry.
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Alexandria OcasioCortez
“A few classics: Hope in the Dark, Solnit Why We Can’t Wait, MLK The Search for Common Ground, Thurman Team of Rivals, Goodwin Col Poems,Audre Lorde Bhagavad Gita Capital, Piketty 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace”
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“This revised and expanded collection gathers dozens of short, intensely lyrical poems that rely on ecstatic spiritual imagery and intimate metaphors. Many pieces are brief and self-contained, suited to reading aloud or dipping into between tasks, and the added previously unpublished poems widen the emotional range. What works best is a steady stream of memorable lines that resurface on rereading; the main limitation is repetition — shared images and refrains recur, and translation choices sometimes smooth or sentimentalize cultural particularities.”
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