Our Dead Behind Us Author:Audre Lorde In this challenging and and extraordinary collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melting of past strength/pain with future hope/fear, the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force -- activism." — As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survi... more »vor, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems." That counterpoint here becomes a compelling force for change.
"In poetry that is as compelling for its ethical vision as for its language, Lorde dares to imagine a changed world." -- San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle« less