276 reviews for:

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

4.54 AVERAGE

glo_bug's review

5.0

emotional medium-paced

grb8's review

5.0

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A Burst of Light is essential reading (beyond the other essentials here among the nonfiction selections).

Had never read Lorde’s poetry before but glad I own this book to be able to parse through it again and again.

ghoul_at_home's review

4.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

jonfaith's review

5.0

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Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

We went out early Saturday morning to walk at Cherokee Park and enjoy the brisk weather and rolling fog. We ducked into Carmichael's on the way back to the car and I found this one on a display of new poetry. Allow us to sing the praises of the bookshop. It is the unexpected which remains such an engine for the imagination.

I read the essays first and then the poetry and then circled back to read the Cancer Diaries. I felt the power of each. It is strange how the essays from the early 1970s through the invasion of Grenada in 1983 sound so timely.

earpiestearp's review

4.5

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

samihelgeson's review

4.5

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Obviously it’s Audre Lorde 4ever but I discovered I prefer her prose to her poetry

raffelion's review

5.0

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

a_fantastic_fox's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

creativetypes's review

4.25

challenging emotional

everamplify's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced