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Name: Audre Lorde
Birth Date: February 18, 1934
Death Date: November 17, 1992
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Audre Lorde
1,295 words, approx. 4 pages
The African American poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992) wrote poetry exploring the relationships between lovers, children and parents, and friends in both a very personal and a socially relevant manner. She was a feminist poet who challenged racial and...
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Biography of Audre (Geraldine) Lorde
2,336 words, approx. 8 pages
Audre Lorde is probably best known as a feminist poet; yet her contributions to the new black poetry movement cover a wide range of themes. Black pride, black love, and black survival in an urban environment are recurring motifs; and the image of the...


Quotations
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Audre Lorde Quotes
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Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - 1992) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. Sourced 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...


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Audre Lorde Information
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Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer, poet and...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The spirited resolve of Audre Lorde
11/20/1992: 706 words, approx. 2 pages
Of the cancer which finally claimed her life, Audre Lorde once wrote, "It is only another face of that continuing battle of self-determination and survival that Black women fight daily, often in triumph." Cancer, which dogged Audre Lorde for more than a decade,...
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World Literature Today
Conversations with Audre Lorde.(Book Review)
01/01/2006: 502 words, approx. 2 pages
Conversations with Audre Lorde. Joan Wylie Hall, ed. Jackson. University Press of Mississippi. 2004. xxv + 199 pages. $13.60. ISBN 1-57806-643-3 JOAN WYLIE HALL teaches at the University of Mississippi and is the author of Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short...
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Vibe.com
Reader Responds to "Essence's War On Rap Hits Black Men"
3/9/2005: 806 words, approx. 3 pages
This is an open letter to you and anyone willing to read on. As long as men and corporations put out the music we know as hip hop, you and your daughters (my sisters) will continue to be the eye candy of the month for...
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Vibe.com
Book Talk: Steven G. Fullwood - On Working Toward A Revolution
9/22/2004: 802 words, approx. 3 pages
How does Black LGBT/SGL culture relate to hip hop?Well, consider the literature.Black LGBT/SGL literature is underground hip hop. We are telling our truths and we have an audience. We are not anomalies. We have been writing for over a century and the mainstream is beginning...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Audre Lorde with Charles H. RoweU
7,517 words, approx. 25 pages
The following is a telephone interview that took place in 1990 between Rowell and Lorde, who was living in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Lorde discusses the relationship between her roles as poet and member of society. "Being a poet is not merely a question of producing poems, " she states. "Being a poet means that I have a certain way of looking at the world, involving myself in the community around me."
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Critical Essay by Gloria T. Hull
7,025 words, approx. 23 pages
In the essay below, Hull conducts a broad appraisal of the themes and issues Lorde addresses in her poetry.
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Critical Essay by Jan Clausen
2,939 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following review, Clausen uses the coinciding occasions of Lorde's death and the publication of Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised) to conduct a broad survey of Lorde's life and poetry.
 


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