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Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre Lorde
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-2025
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Place reservation for Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre LordeRead these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre's fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are. Audre Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend's suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her. This account of Lorde's life and work illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about how to live on, and with, a planet in transformation.
Main title:
Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre Lorde / Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
511 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane 2025.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141996202 (pbk)
Dewey class:
920 LOR
Language:
English
Subject:
Lorde, AudreAfrican American women poets -- 20th century -- BiographyAfrican American poets -- 20th century -- BiographyWomen poets, American -- 20th century -- BiographyPoets, American -- 20th century -- BiographyAfrican American women social reformers -- BiographyWomen social reformers -- United States -- BiographySocial reformers -- United States -- BiographyBiography
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3063767
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