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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
by
Audre Lorde
"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document...."--Adrienne Rich
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
October 17th 1992
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1992)
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I found this book of earlier poems that Audre Lorde reworked and then published both really fascinating and really inspiring. It's kind of it's own primer on the writing process in the raw, which is a pretty rare thing.
Read everything by Audre Lorde. And try to spend time reading her poems out loud. While I feel poems are meant to be read through the voice of the poet, you can use yours to read hers. I doubt she would mind.
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Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was published by the Poet's Press and edited by Diane di Prima, a former cla...more
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