Audre Lorde





Audre Lorde

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born
February 18, 1934 in New York City, The United States

died
January 01, 1992

gender
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Average rating: 4.30 · 6,973 ratings · 374 reviews · 28 distinct works
Zami: A New Spelling of My ...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,123 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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Sister Outsider: Essays and...
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 2,036 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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The Collected Poems of Audr...
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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The Cancer Journals: Specia...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions
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The Black Unicorn: Poems
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Uses Of The Erotic: The Ero...
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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The Marvelous Arithmetics o...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Coal
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 64 ratings3 editions
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Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings4 editions
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More books by Audre Lorde…
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
Audre Lorde

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde

“Your silence will not protect you.”
Audre Lorde

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Who is your favorite poet? (add to this list if needed)

 
  40 votes, 14.5%

 
  23 votes, 8.4%

Edgar Allan Poe (write-in)
 
  21 votes, 7.6%

Emily Dickinson
 
  16 votes, 5.8%

Robert Frost (write-in)
 
  15 votes, 5.5%

Sylvia Plath (write-in)
 
  14 votes, 5.1%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)
 
  11 votes, 4.0%

 
  8 votes, 2.9%

 
  7 votes, 2.5%

Walt Whitman (write-in)
 
  7 votes, 2.5%

 
  7 votes, 2.5%

william shakespear (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 2.2%

Rumi (write-in)
 
  6 votes, 2.2%

Rainer Maria Rilke (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 1.8%

T.S. Elliot (write-in)
 
  5 votes, 1.8%

William Blake (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

Fernando Pessoa (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

Dante (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

Lord Alfred Tennyson (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

D. H. Lawrence (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

Dorothy Parker (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 1.5%

John Keats (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.1%

Federico García Lorca (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.1%

Charles Baudelaire (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.1%

anne sexton (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 1.1%

 
  3 votes, 1.1%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

 
  2 votes, 0.7%

Hart Crane (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

Andrea Gibson (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

John Donne (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

Wallace Stevens (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.7%

 
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Ted Hughes (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Stephen Crane (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Jack Kerouac (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Ellen Hopkins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Lewis Carroll (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Geoffrey Chaucer (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Al Berto (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Dmitry Prigov (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Wisława Szymborska (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Mark Doty (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Mario Benedetti (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Percy Shelley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Suheir Hammad (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

E.E. Cummings (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Hiroyuki Nishigaki (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Gwendolyn Brooks (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Philip Levine (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Rafał Wojaczek (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Gérard de Nerval (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

A. Kamalei (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

 
  1 vote, 0.4%

cesar vallejo (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

Alexander Pope (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.4%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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