Even if you don't consider yourself a "poetry person."

Read 134 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins t…

A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'

In 1984, Audre Lorde, a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” spent three months in Berlin teaching a poetry workshop and course in Black American women poets in Engli…

I am Black and lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.