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Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Audre Lorde
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Description for Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Paperback.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape. 'Her work shows us new ways to imagine the world ... so many themes of Audre's work have endured' Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 'I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration' Jackie Kay
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241351086
SKU
V9780241351086
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About Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.
Reviews for Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it's ever been
Guardian
Zami feels larger than life - almost legendary - while remaining grounded, intimate and moving
Cosmopolitan
Zami made me realise that I was not alone ... that I, too, could be as courageous and as loud with my truths
Elle Magazine
Zami is just the best
Vice
Lorde's examination of her multiple outsiderness pried my sheltered mind wide open
Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home (in `My Ten Favorite Books,' New York Times Magazine) Audre Lorde says it best
Refinery29
I have an Audre Lorde google alert on my phone. It helps confirm how relevant my favorite black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet remains today
Huffington Post
Her work is so quotable. It has the zeitgeist factor. Now, just as much as ever, we need the voice of Audre Lorde
New Statesman
Zami is important because of its descriptions of growing up a black lesbian feminist in the 1950s, with open, unapologetic, vivid descriptions of women's relationships
Guardian
Excellent and evocative... personal honesty and lack of pretentiousness shine through the writing. Her experiences are painted with exquisite imagery
The New York Times
I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration. At last I felt I fitted in.
Jackie Kay
Guardian
Zami feels larger than life - almost legendary - while remaining grounded, intimate and moving
Cosmopolitan
Zami made me realise that I was not alone ... that I, too, could be as courageous and as loud with my truths
Elle Magazine
Zami is just the best
Vice
Lorde's examination of her multiple outsiderness pried my sheltered mind wide open
Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home (in `My Ten Favorite Books,' New York Times Magazine) Audre Lorde says it best
Refinery29
I have an Audre Lorde google alert on my phone. It helps confirm how relevant my favorite black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet remains today
Huffington Post
Her work is so quotable. It has the zeitgeist factor. Now, just as much as ever, we need the voice of Audre Lorde
New Statesman
Zami is important because of its descriptions of growing up a black lesbian feminist in the 1950s, with open, unapologetic, vivid descriptions of women's relationships
Guardian
Excellent and evocative... personal honesty and lack of pretentiousness shine through the writing. Her experiences are painted with exquisite imagery
The New York Times
I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration. At last I felt I fitted in.
Jackie Kay