EAN: 9780241410509

AUDRE LORDE - GEBRAUCHT SISTER OUTSIDER (PENGUI...

Audre Lorde was a writer  feminist and civil rights activist - or  as she famously put it 
'Black  lesbian  mother  warrior  poet'. Born in New York in 1934  she had her first poem
published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker  ghost writer 
social worker  X-ray technician  medical clerk  and arts and crafts supervisor  she became a
librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet  essayist and speaker 
anthologised by Langston Hughes  lauded by Adrienne Rich  and befriended by James Baldwin. She
was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991  when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize 
she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter  Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died
of cancer in 1992  aged 58.

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