EAN: 9780241505717

GUMBS ALEXIS PAULINE SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE

A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024    Read these chapters like a collection
of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for
Audre's fierce love  which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents
to reach you  wherever you are.   Audre Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice
of her best friend's suicide  of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear
arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And  ultimately
a cancer survivor  who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the
struggle against oppression taking place all around her.  This stunning new account of Lorde's
life and work illuminates how  for Lorde  survival was not simply about getting through  or
about resilience. It was about how to live on  and with  a planet in transformation. Lorde's
commitment to justice was intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world 
with the planetary dynamics of geology  meteorology  and biology. For Lorde  ecological images
are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be on earth  and how to live fully
as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet.  In Survival Is a Promise   Alexis Pauline Gumbs  the
first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde's manuscript archives  illuminates the
eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force  showing us the
grand possibility of life together on earth.

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