A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "Hanging Fire"

A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : 9781410347640
ISBN-13 : 1410347648
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "Hanging Fire" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "Hanging Fire," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : 9780141993140
ISBN-13 : 0141993146
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cancer Journals by : Audre Lorde

'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New Statesman The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and self-acceptance. 'Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet' Adrienne Rich 'This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me' Alice Walker

Zami

Zami
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780241351093
ISBN-13 : 024135109X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Zami by : Audre Lorde

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 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

The Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 133
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ISBN-10 : 9780241396872
ISBN-13 : 0241396875
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Unicorn by : Audre Lorde

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power.

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 9780393254402
ISBN-13 : 0393254402
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by : Audre Lorde

A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best contemporary poets. . . . Her poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving."—Chuckanut Reader Magazine "What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius . . . you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and beauty of this volume."—Out Magazine

When I Dare to Be Powerful

When I Dare to Be Powerful
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Publisher : Penguin Classics
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0241473152
ISBN-13 : 9780241473153
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis When I Dare to Be Powerful by : Audre Lorde

Opstellen over vrouwelijke kracht en solidariteit van de activistische zwarte auteur.

Wrestling with the Muse

Wrestling with the Muse
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780231503648
ISBN-13 : 0231503644
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Wrestling with the Muse by : Melba Joyce Boyd

And as I groped in darkness and felt the pain of millions, gradually, like day driving night across the continent, I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision. —Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions" In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914–2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in Pink," about the assassination of President Kennedy. When both were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965, Randall published them as broadsides. Thus was born the Broadside Press, whose popular chapbooks opened the canon of American literature to the works of African American writers. Dudley Randall, one of the great success stories of American small-press history, was also poet laureate of Detroit, a civil-rights activist, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Melba Joyce Boyd was an editor at Broadside, was Randall's friend and colleague for twenty-eight years, and became his authorized biographer. Her book is an account of the interconnections between urban and labor politics in Detroit and the broader struggles of black America before and during the Civil Rights era. But also, through Randall's poetry and sixteen years of interviews, the narrative is a multipart dialogue between poets, Randall, the author, and the history of American letters itself, and it affords unique insights into the life and work of this crucial figure.

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 81
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ISBN-10 : 9780393345759
ISBN-13 : 0393345750
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by : Adrienne Rich

In her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim—to discover—what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's distinctive voice.

Coal

Coal
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 0393314863
ISBN-13 : 9780393314861
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Coal by : Audre Lorde

One of the earliest collections of poems by the Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist includes "The Woman Thing," "Summer Oracle," and "Spring People."

Hill of Fire

Hill of Fire
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9780064440400
ISBN-13 : 0064440400
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Hill of Fire by : Thomas P. Lewis

"El Monstruo!" Every day is the same for Pablo's father. Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting in the middle of his cornfield!