The marvelous arithmetics of distance : poems 1987-1992 / Audre Lorde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorde, Audre.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 60 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Summary:

This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by Audre Lorde, "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives", in the words of Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde was a poet of the city of her birth, New York, as well as of other urban landscapes. She spoke of the Caribbean, Africa, Europe. She brought to all these places a true cosmopolitan vision, one dissatisfied with the usual description of things, one eager for truth-telling, for change. She spoke of her hopes for this, her final offering to the world she traveled: "Beyond the penchant for easy definitions, false exactitudes, we share a hunger for enduring value, relationship beyond hierarchy and outside reproach, a hunger for life measures, complex, direct, and flexible....I want this book to be filled with shards of light thrown off from the shifting tensions between the dissimilar, for that is the real stuff of creation and growth".

Contents:

Smelling the Wind

Legacy-Hers

Making Love to Concrete

Echoes

Domino

Thaw

Party Time

Prism

Do You Remember Laura

Inheritance-His

The One Who Got Away

Depreciation

Syracuse Airport

Thanks to Jesse Jackson

Judith's Fancy

Production

Building

jessehelms

Dear Joe

Women on trains

The politics of addiction

Kitchen linoleum

Oshun's table

Parting

Peace on Earth

Restoration: A memorial-9/18/91

Starting all over again

What it means to be beautiful

Hugo I

Construction

Speechless

For Craig

East Berlin

The night-blooming jasmine

Girlfriend

Lunar eclipse

Change

Today is not the day

The electric slide boogie.

Notes:

"This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by Andre Lorde ..."--Cover.

"Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt. Jacket detail of Kente cloth ..."

"The text of this book is composed in Garamond #3, with the display set in Belwe."

"Book design by Guenet Abraham."

Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Poetry, Winner, 1994

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393035131 :

OCLC:

123254131