"Blaze and Pulse on the Page"
LORDE, Audre. The Colleted Poems of Audre Lorde. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1997.
8vo. White cloth backed boards in black with gilt lettering in border to spine, author's initials stamped in blind to front board; fascimile endpapers with a poem; pp. [xx], 489, [vii]; fine.
First edition.
Collected for the first time are over three hundred poems from nine volumes published by the influential Audre Lorde, an anthology she believed details "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the world I have inhabited". Included are Lorde's earliest, previously unavailable works: The First Cities, The New York Head Shop and Museum, Cables to Rage and From a Land Where Other People Live.
For the first time, these collected poems celebrate a revolutionary female poet, one whom Adrienne Rich so succinctly described as "a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity,….a poetry which extended beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America..these are poems which blaze and pulse on the page".
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