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  <title><![CDATA[Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Audre Lorde recounts the first half of her life in an amazing blend of her own poetry, popular songs, journal entries, and memories that are startling in their exactness and fairness. Her ability to recount her extreme loneliness and desire for companionship at being Black in gay scenes, gay in Blac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5132266">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 23 08:10:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Audre Lorde's beatiful autobiography of her child- and early-adulthood. She's been prized for her &quot;sensuality&quot; in writing but this is no chicklit - her account of the lesbian bar scene in 1950's America will fascinate anyone interested in these forgotten pockets of culture. After reading i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/395458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4561028">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all black lesbians and their allies]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 14 18:40:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 14 18:43:16 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my favorite audre lorde book.  it was so interesting to read about her life growing up in harlem and her coming out process in the 1950s... it explores racism within the gay community, heterosexism and homophobia in society as a whole... and is just an overall great story of a woman's journe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4561028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1019917">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[All my QOC family *heart* xoxo]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 03 19:35:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 03 19:40:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zami is poetry in motion and it never fails to move.  Audre Lorde is also another one of my favorite authors (including two I've already mentioned, Alice Walker and Sherman Alexie).  Lorde inspires me to be a better person all around becasue as she stumbles and struggles through this book, it is as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1019917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2180591">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 20 15:08:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what I should say about this book, other than that it should be read by every feminist and person of color.  It is an excellent book.]]></body>
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    <review id="1941678">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 13 18:18:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 13 18:28:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous autobiographical story. I read it in one day. It made me want to travel to South America and New York City. ]]></body>
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    <review id="39768939">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 07 20:04:05 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 06:39:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Audre Lorde's &quot;Zami&quot; is a mixed bag of a book, so to speak.  A friend warned me that it was amazing until she leaves college in the book, and after that, it's a bit yawn-tastic and circular.  I tend to agree with him, though I wouldn't call the second half of the book boring--just less col...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39768939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39320160">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 05 15:22:55 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 15:50:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 05 15:22:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;After the first week, I wondered if I could stick it out. I thought that if I had to work under those conditions for the rest of my life I would slit my throat. Some mornings, I questioned how I could get through the eight hours of stink and dirt and din and boredom. At 8:00 A.M. I would set m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39320160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5474659">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 01 07:36:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 16 11:56:32 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give this book 3 1/2 stars, I would.  There's no question that Audre Lorde was an incredible writer and innovator.  Lorde radicalized feminist and LGBTQ movements by pointing out the systematic racism informing both groups.  As a queer woman, she challenged patriarchal and homophobic norm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5474659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50499797">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jayme]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 26 06:54:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 07:01:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a self-described 'biomythography' of poet Audre Lorde's youth. The book starts out slow and is, at times a bit disturbing, but it gains momentum after the first few chapters. Highlights include beautifully written, colourful descriptions of the New York lesbian scene in the 1950s and poetic,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50499797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48910488">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heyrebekah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 11 07:49:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 12 09:05:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book for college class about the art of autobiography.  I picked it up again the other day and was blown away (again) by how unflinchingly honest Lorde is as she recounts her childhood in Harlem and then her struggles fitting in as a black lesbian, trying to bring her different ide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48910488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42597123">
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    <name><![CDATA[Martha]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 10 13:51:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 20 10:32:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[We read passages of this book in my 9th grade english class, which now seems quite radical.  Thanks Mrs. Sullivan!  I always meant to seek out the book and read the whole thing, and now I have.  (this would have been great to read right before or after Diane di Prima's memoir, as they were both in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42597123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78011743">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 16 16:41:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 16:41:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a perfect book - in so many ways it is twisted and folded in on itself and the narrative is much more like a diary in its fits of intensity and breaks in time.  But I loved it so much and felt so close to it at the point that I read it that it has five stars in my book.]]></body>
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    <review id="47549331">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cherie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 25 18:52:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Fantastic autobio of Audre Lorde. I haven't read her since my women's studies days of college, but she is so amazingly fantastic and interesting. A great story of Lorde's life, including her struggles, her loves, and her journey to find herself. Highly recommended.]]></body>
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    <review id="48018231">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 12:10:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 02 12:16:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not exaggerate when I say that this was a life-changing book for me. I read it twice, cover-to-cover at 18 in Cleveland, OH in wintery months. Something like a book-length prose-poem, this &quot;biomythology&quot; remains one of my favorite books.]]></body>
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    <review id="40402647">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erich]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lansing, MI]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great coming-of-age story about a woman learning to live as a lesbian, stuck between the black and gay communities. This is a book that bears reading by more than just those involved in the communities it depicts, though. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40402647]]></url>
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    <review id="71540431">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 17 07:47:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 24 10:47:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a hallmark of what it means when people say, &quot;the personal is political.&quot; I've read <em>Zami</em> several times and each time it has struck me as the purest artifact of a woman's life. It resonates with me in a very personal way, but the political implications are teeming through this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71540431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very amazing. It is a tell of a woman who is trying to find the median between man and woman. All the while narrorating the tells of her lesbian affairs and intriguing us with her intelligence]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lyrical, poignant, and sexy, Audre Lourde's biomythography is a must read for anyone interested in the intersecting issues of race, gender, and sexuality.]]></body>
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