![]() ![]() So, I had to choose between Zami and The Cancer Journals. (I broke this rule once: I’m reading both Fun Home and its sequel, Are You My Mother- I rationalize this because they are both graphic memoirs and therefore faster reads). When compiling my reading list, I tried not to include two works by the same author, prioritizing reading as many voices as possible. I had read a little of The Cancer Journals in a memoirs of illness seminar, and probably a few other poems across the course of my education. ![]() ![]() I thought I knew one of her other poems, one that my grandma had cut out of the newspaper and mailed to me when I was 14, but apparently that was actually by Elizabeth Alexander. Here is what I knew about Audre Lorde prior to reading this book famous Black feminist leftist lesbian poet librarian, affiliated with CUNY, died of breast cancer, wrote “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” I think that’s all. ![]()
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