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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde 0000000115569521 Audre Lorde, a black, gay female poet and activist, fought against racial and sexual discrimination and for gay rights. A renowned writer, she authored 18 books and won t...
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) Audre Lorde 9780195341485 Nonfiction Oxford University P...
Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay
Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay MULTIPLE Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay are influential writers and social activists. Lorde's work confronts issues of race, gender, and sexuality, while Gay's essays and ficti...
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 9780393319729 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country’s most influential poe...
Audre Lorde and Merle Woo
Audre Lorde and Merle Woo MULTIPLE Audre Lorde and Merle Woo are renowned authors, known for their significant contributions to feminist literature and activism. Their works focus on issues of race, ...
Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches Audre Lorde 9781580911863 Nonfiction Crossing Press Crossing Press Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER ...
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Selected Works of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay 9781324004615 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, pow...
The Cancer Journals: Special Edition
The Cancer Journals: Special Edition Audre Lorde 9781879960732 Nonfiction Aunt Lute Books Aunt Lute Books “Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the ...
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 Audre Lorde 9780393311709 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “This volume resonates with some of the finest poems Audre ...
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems Audre Lorde 9780393312386 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tens...
Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series) Audre Lorde 9780895941220 Nonfiction The Crossing Press The Crossing Press “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From th...
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays Audre Lorde 9798890961310 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books [Originally published in 1998] “The self-described Black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture...
Coal
Coal Audre Lorde 9780393314861 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, “For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light.’ Co...
Cables to Rage
Cables to Rage Audre Lorde 9780903779098 Poetry Paul Breman Paul Breman Her second volume, Cables to Rage (1970), which was mainly written during her tenure at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, address...
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) Audre Lorde 9780393312379 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Ric...
The First Cities
The First Cities Audre Lorde B0006EFQ2C Poetry Poet’s Press Poet’s Press The First Cities is Audre Lorde’s first book of poetry.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Audre Lorde 9780241339725 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House From the self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,&rdqu...
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems Audre Lorde 9780995716223 Poetry Silver Press Silver Press
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New Audre Lorde 9780393309751 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Undersong is a remarkable poetic document…."—Adrienne Rich
Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices (Freedom Organizing)
Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices (Freedom Organizing) Audre Lorde 9780913175224 Poetry Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press poetry chapbook
A Burst of Light Essays
A Burst of Light Essays Audre Lorde 9780932379399 Nonfiction Firebrand Books Firebrand Books Republished by Lushena Books
From a Land Where Other People Live.
From a Land Where Other People Live. Audre Lorde 9780910296946 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press
Shay Youngblood, Audre Lorde, and others
Shay Youngblood, Audre Lorde, and others MULTIPLE Shay Youngblood and Audre Lorde are renowned authors celebrated for their significant contributions to literature. Shay Youngblood, Audre Lorde, and ...
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780374603274 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A bold, innovative biography that offers a new under...
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde Rima Vesely-Flad 9798889842583 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts...
Angela Davis on Audre Lorde
Angela Davis on Audre Lorde Author Interviews Angela Davis talks about Black, lesbian, feminist, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde (https://aalbc.com/authors/Audre+Lorde) during the "Audre Lorde: A Bu...
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Alexis De Veaux 9780393019544 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of The Cancer Journals, and an ...
Apartheid U.S.A.; Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (Freedom Organizing Series, Number 2)
Apartheid U.S.A.; Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (Freedom Organizing Series, Number 2) Audre Lorde and Merle Woo 9780913175064 Nonfiction Kitchen Table: Women o...
Every Woman I’Ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers
Every Woman I’Ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Shay Youngblood, Audre Lorde, and others 9781573440301 Nonfiction Cleis Press Cleis Press "I have wanted to find my mother in every woman ...
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books Troy Johnson Article “Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.” —Ethiopian proverb AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books - January to February ...
In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk
In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk Heidi R. Lewis, Dana Maria Asbury, and Jazlyn Tate Andrews 9783960421115 Nonfiction Witnessed Series Edition Assemblage In Audre’s Footsteps hono...
Little Black Lives Matter
Little Black Lives Matter Khodi Dill 9781644211878 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes f...
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9780252086038 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Includes 25 Black & Wh...
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought Briona Simone Jones 9781620975763 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought b...
Can We All Be Feminists?
Can We All Be Feminists? June Eric-Udorie, Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne 9780143132370 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Ca...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith 9781558618985 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random ...
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall 0000000114554651 Dudley Randall (1914-2000), a prominent Detroit poet and publisher, began his career at 13 with his first publication. He founded Broadside Press in 1965, promoting Af...
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing Tara Pringle Jefferson 9780063377875 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates t...
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Sandra Guzmán 9780063052598 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America she...
The Portable Feminist Reader
The Portable Feminist Reader Roxane Gay 9780143110392 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive ...
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology Amber McBride 9780063225299 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Starring thirty-seven poets, with ...
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim 9780525619796 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode ...
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems April Gibson 9780063319172 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins With echoes of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, The Span of ...
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt 9781647426323 Nonfiction She Writes Press She Writes Press For readers who love Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Nikk...
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller Breanna J. McDaniel 9780593324202 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning author and illustrator...
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism Jenn M. Jackson 9780593243336 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward ...
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture Courtney Thorsson 9780231204729 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press One Sunday afternoon in Feb...
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...
Quiet: Poems
Quiet: Poems Victoria Adukwei Bulley 9780593535646 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A black British poet makes her thrilling American debut with Quiet, exploring the significance of ...
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition Barbara A. Holmes 9781506488424 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media The rich legacy of black critical thought, creative expre...
Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work Claudia Tate 9781642598407 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wi...
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen George McCalman 9780062913234 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From an award-winning graphic designer comes this gorgeous collection that ...
We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems
We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems Cheryl Boyce-Taylor 9780810144231 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press We Are Not Wearing Helmets is a collection of political love poems rendered ...
Particle and Wave: A Conversation
Particle and Wave: A Conversation Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781737025504 Nonfiction 53rd State Press 53rd State Press In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and a...
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson 9780231200455 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Pr...
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone Minna Salami 9780062877079 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropol...
Say Her Name
Say Her Name Zetta Elliott 9781368045247 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victi...
I Shimmer Sometimes, Too
I Shimmer Sometimes, Too Porsha Olayiwola 9781943735457 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry Porsha Olayiwola’s debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These po...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good adrienne maree brown 9781849353267 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken w...
Dark Days
Dark Days James Baldwin 9780241337547 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House “So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.” Drawi...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper 9781250112576 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America’s leadin...
African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship
African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship Simone A. James Alexander 9780813062051 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Winne...
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Patricia Hill Collins 9781138127241 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In spite of the double burden of racial and gender ...
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness Rebecca Walker 9781593764173 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the ef...
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction Andrew Helfer 9781573447140 Nonfiction Cleis Press Cleis Press Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anth...
B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)
B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music) Fred Moten 9780822346968 Poetry Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred...
Our Caribbean: A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From The Antilles
Our Caribbean: A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From The Antilles Thomas Glave 9780822342267 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The first book of its kind, Our Ca...
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry)
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry) Elizabeth Alexander 9780472069378 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press A volume in the Poets on Poe...
The Black Woman: An Anthology
The Black Woman: An Anthology Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A collection of early, emerging works from some of today’s most celebrated African ...
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture)
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) Cheryl A. Wall 9780807829271 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Caroli...
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995 Julius E. Thompson 9780786422647 Fiction McFarland McFarland In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a...
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Cheryl Clarke 9780813534053 Poetry Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies ha...
Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics)
Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics) June Jordan 9780767918466 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward c...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Black Gay Man: Essays
Black Gay Man: Essays Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775035 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The landmark book that established Robert Reid-Pharr as one of America’s most ex...
Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives
Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives Patricia Bell-Scott 9780805046298 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Patricia Bell-Scott, an accomplished editor, has assembled another imp...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (American Century)
American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (American Century) Arna Bontemps 9780809015641 Poetry Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a...
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race Jim Daniels 9780814325421 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Letters to America features the work of poets who ha...
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall 9781565842564 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The first major anthology to trace the development, from the ...
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing Catherine E. McKinley and Jocelyn Taylor 9780385473552 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the be...
Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex
Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex Marita Golden 9780385424011 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Bringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golde...
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon 0000000073434556 Kamilah Aisha Moon (1973-2021), a Nashville native, was a renowned author featured in numerous publications and a professor of English and Creative Writing. She wa...
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs 000000011229354X Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black feminist and academic who has pioneered archival research in Black feminist geniuses' works. She founded grassroots publish...
Nichole Perkins
Nichole Perkins NONE Nichole Perkins, a writer from Nashville, explores pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. She's a recognized fellow from various institutions and a former co-host of ...
On-line Writers Workshop
On-line Writers Workshop Loading WANTED: Black Writers with balls and ovaries of teflon and steel who can put up with heat waves, flashbacks, old lovers and word processors who can keep a watch...
Where the Boys Come to Die
Where the Boys Come to Die Porscha Sterling 9781496741974 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. On New Orleans’s darkest, most seductive streets, obsession is a game two can play—but only one can...
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends Tia Williams 9780316511087 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Scorching-hot summer. Scorching-hot chemistry. Two teens can’t forget they’re...
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters Mary Helen Washington 9780060975036 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Maya Angelou provides the foreword for this collection of po...
Eartha Watts-Hicks
Eartha Watts-Hicks NONE Eartha Watts-Hicks is a prolific writer for various online publications, including Harlem World's Magazine's blog and TheUrbanBookSource.com. She has been the director of publ...
Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis NONE Dr. Heidi R. Lewis is an Associate Professor and Director of the Feminist & Gender Studies Program at Colorado College. Specializing in Feminist Theory, Hip Hop Culture, and Criti...
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Junauda Petrus 9780525555483 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women...