Zami: a new spelling of my name : a biomythography / Audre Lord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorde, Audre, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1897 Book Fund.

Series:

Penguin modern classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American lesbians.

African American women poets.

Lorde, Audre.

African American women poets--20th century--Biography.

African American lesbians--Biography.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin Classics, 2018.

Summary:

A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1897 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780241351086

0241351081

OCLC:

1048604387