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Below, we select and introduce ten of Audre Lorde’s best-known poems, suggesting why we think they – and all of Lorde’s work – is worth reading, and why it remains so relevant. 1. ‘ A Litany for Survival ’. This 1978 poem is addressed to people who are voiceless and marginalised in society.
- 'Coal'
- 'Who Said It Was Simple'
- 'Power'
- 'The Black Unicorn'
- 'A Woman Speaks'
- 'Afterimages'
- 'Sisters in Arms'
- 'Never to Dream of Spiders'
First appearing in her 1968 debut collectionThe First Cities, “Coal” might be Lorde’s most defining work. Not only did it later become the title poem for another book, but the poem is her declaration of her own identity and celebration of being Black. She starts it off saying, “I / Is the total black, being spoken / From the earth’s inside,” while ...
Every part of Lorde’s identity was outside the acceptable mainstream, a heavy burden to carry. And that’s what she puts into “Who Said It Was Simple,” part of her 1973 collection From a Land Where Other People Live, which was nominated for a National Book Award. “But I who am bound by my mirror / as well as my bed / see causes in colour / as well a...
“Power” captures the devastation caused by the 1973 murderof a 10-year-old Black boy, Clifford Glover, by police officer Thomas Shea, in New York City’s Queens neighborhood. “Today that 37-year-old white man / with 13 years of police forcing / was set free / by eleven white men who said they were satisfied justice had been done / and one Black Woma...
As the title work of her 1978 collection, the 15-line “The Black Unicorn” paints the reality of being outcast, both racially and sexually. In its simplicity of calling the black unicorn “greedy,” “impatient,” “restless” and “unrelenting,” she takes a deep dive into the poignancy of being “mistaken for a shadow or symbol” and how the “fury” stings s...
Lorde grapples with racial identity in “A Woman Speaks,” juxtaposing beautifully crafted lyrical images on the surface (“Moon marked and touched by sun / my magic is unwritten”) with deep frustrations bubbling underneath (“I am treacherous with old magic / and the noon’s new fury”). She then builds up to the unjust reality of “wide futures promised...
Divided into four sections, “Afterimages” is among Lorde’s longer works. In it, she merges impressions of a white victim of the 1979 Pearl River floods in Jackson, Mississippi, and of the 1955 murder of Black teen Emmett Till. “A woman measures her life’s damage / my eyes are caves, chunks of etched rock / tied to the ghost of the black boy,” she w...
The theme of oppression Lorde so often touched on emerges in “Sisters in Arms” through the image of lovers forced to separate after political violence, as they “lay together in the first light of a new season.” She also addresses media bias head-on as newspapers covered murdered white South Africans, with no mention of the Black children killed. Bu...
After publishing her journey with breast cancer in 1980’s The Cancer Journals, Lorde was then diagnosed with liver cancer. She captures her feeling about the diagnosis, writing, “death lay a condemnation within my blood.” But she then pivots from describing how the disease has taken her own body (it ultimately took her life in 1992) to symbolizing ...
A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
‘Who Said It Was Simple’ by Audre Lorde is a powerful poem about the inequalities in various civil rights movements during the poet’s lifetime. This piece is widely regarded as one of Audre Lorde's most powerful and impactful poems.
13 de jun. de 2021 · Ten Poems by Audre Lorde. The esteemed poet is author of Sister Outsider, one title on the Schomburg Black Liberation Reading List. Read free related content on JSTOR. A portrait of Audre Lorde from the cover of the July/August 1988 issue of WomaNews. via JSTOR.
18 de feb. de 2016 · Audre Lorde (18 de febrero de 1934 – 17 de noviembre de 1992) Carbón (“Coal”, 1962) . “Yo” es el negro completo, algo hablado del interior de la Tierra. Hay muchas clases de “abierto” – como un diamante se vuelve en nudo de llama, como un sonido se vuelve a una palabra, coloreado por quien-paga-cuál….
A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
