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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I can confirm I loved this book because I read it so. Slowly. I know some people speed up when they get into a book but the more I like a book, the more I let my eyeballs linger and reread good sentences. And these were some good sentences. Prose by a poet, a fave yet again!
In Zami (the Carriacou word essentially meaning "lesbian") we follow Audre Lorde through childhood, adolescence, and the start of her adulthood. I assume "biomythography" means she took some creative liberty in the storytelling. Judging by the richly remembered women and relationships she recounts, I imagine the liberties were taken in their precisely recounted days. I don't care what was real and what wasn't, this book about lesbians in the 1950s published in the 1980s gave me such a more three dimensional idea of American Lesbian ancestors. Lorde was an intersectional feminist years before the term was part of our popular lexicon. So good. Four and a half taters 🥔🥔🥔🥔🍠/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
In Zami (the Carriacou word essentially meaning "lesbian") we follow Audre Lorde through childhood, adolescence, and the start of her adulthood. I assume "biomythography" means she took some creative liberty in the storytelling. Judging by the richly remembered women and relationships she recounts, I imagine the liberties were taken in their precisely recounted days. I don't care what was real and what wasn't, this book about lesbians in the 1950s published in the 1980s gave me such a more three dimensional idea of American Lesbian ancestors. Lorde was an intersectional feminist years before the term was part of our popular lexicon. So good. Four and a half taters 🥔🥔🥔🥔🍠/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse