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The Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn

by Audre Lorde
The Black Unicorn
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The Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn

by Audre Lorde

Overview

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished in an oral tradition, which also blaze and pulse on the page, beneath the reader's eye."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393312379
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/17/1995
Series: Norton Paperback
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 136
Sales rank: 222,135
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) published eleven volumes of poetry and five works of prose. Her constellation of honors includes honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford colleges.
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