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for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon's new fury with all your wide futures promised I am woman and not white. Audre Lorde, "A Woman Speaks" from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. Copyright © 1997 by Audre Lorde.
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Audre Lorde (/ˈɔːdri lɔːrd/; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934- November 17, 1992) was an African American writer, feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, particularly in her poems expressing anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life.
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'Power' (1976) " Power " captures the devastation caused by the 1973 murder of a 10-year-old Black boy, Clifford Glover, by police officer Thomas Shea, in New York City's Queens neighborhood.
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Who Said It Was Simple By Audre Lorde There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first
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The African-American poet Audre Lorde (1934-92) was a self-described 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.' Her poetry was often openly political and was intended to help other women - and in particular Black American women - to connect with each other through a kind of shared experience.
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Audre Lorde, "Hanging Fire" from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.
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Audre Lorde was a professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Hunter College. She was the poet laureate of New York from 1991-92. She died of breast cancer in 1992. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (W. W. Norton) was published in 1997.
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The poet wrote this poem for the deceased boy for the sake of saving humanity. And, the rhetorical statements the police officers used at court to get free, are meant for "killing" it. Structure of Power 'Power' by Audre Lorde is a five-stanza poem that is separated into uneven sets of lines. The shortest stanza is the first, lasting.
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Audre Lorde ( / ˈɔːdri ˈlɔːrd /; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist.
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde - The Complete Poems of Audre Lorde brings together this influential poet's nine books of poetry, including her early, previously unavailable work. In Lorde's words, these poems offer "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inhabited."
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1. Power Published in 1978, " Power " tells the story of a real life murder and subsequent trial. Unfortunately, some of the themes in the prose are applicable more than 40 years later. On April.
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Audre Lorde described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," and is remembered today for those things, and the wide-reaching impact she had on contemporary poetry. Her poetry is noted for its sincerity and passion and often touched on topics including civil rights and second-wave feminism. Read more about Audre Lorde.
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A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queens stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood and a voice said "Die you little motherfucker" and there are tapes to prove it. At his trial this policeman said in his own defense "I didn't notice the size nor nothing else only the color". And there are tapes to prove that, too.
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A Poem for Women in Rage "A killing summer heat wraps up the city emptied of all who are not bound to stay" The Trollop Maiden "But my life is not portable now said the trollop maiden I need fixed light to make my witless orchids grow" The Women of Dan Dance with Their Swords in Their Hands To Mark the Time When They Were Warriors
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In a flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain a microphone thrust up against her flat bewildered words "we jest come from the bank yestiddy borrowing money to pay the income tax now everything's gone. I never knew
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1934-1992 Robert Alexander/Getty Images A self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents.
