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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography by Audre Lorde

19 reviews

addyruth17's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Such a fascinating life, and a delectable poetic voice.  I was writing down quotes and annotating like crazy.  A bit slow and perhaps unsettled in the timeline, but worth it for the insight into the Black lesbian 1940s/50s experience, and the gorgeous descriptions of loving women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Death, Racism, Alcohol, Rape, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Animal death, Blood, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Racism, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexism, Animal death, Death, Child abuse, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Grief, Classism, Blood, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Misogyny

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Drug use, Mental illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Infidelity, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Vomit, War, Trafficking, Cancer, and Slavery

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kingaisnotcool's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, and Alcoholism

aegireads's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Racism

Moderate: Grief and Abortion

Minor: Child abuse and Animal death

brnineworms's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is truly incredible. It’s beautifully written; raw, evocative, heartachingly sincere. Reading it, I felt like there was always something almost said – secrets just barely hidden behind a veil of metaphor, accessible only to those who know what to look for.
At times, the major themes of relationships, the self, and truth are explicitly highlighted, while at others they permeate the text almost – but not quite – unnoticed.

My only complaint (and even then it isn’t really a complaint) is that the book ends somewhat abruptly. I found myself yearning for a few more chapters. Still, I don’t think that’s enough to bring my rating down from its well-deserved five stars. If anything, it just goes to show how enthralling Lorde’s writing is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Abortion, Death, Self harm, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Grief, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Ableism, Alcohol, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer, Murder, Fatphobia, Trafficking, Genocide, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, and Terminal illness

sorcha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Abortion

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Racism, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

starla's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abortion, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

 I read a couple of essays by Audre Lorde last year and immediately knew I wanted read more of her work. This was brilliant and I can see why it's such a beloved classic. The language is beautiful and there's a quality about it which felt like fiction, hence the term biomythography. I also found it fascinating reading about New York in the 1930s to 1950s because it's a period I didn't know much about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Racism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

namizaela's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was a wonderful book, and Audre Lorde is such a great writer. For me, the main faults were that I had trouble connecting to her writing, maybe because the theme of the book shifted so suddenly from family to romantic love (which makes sense, because this is a memoir). Maybe this book would have worked better as a series of short stories or essays? Either way, Lorde is really amazing and she constructed a captivating narrative of her life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide