Ebook {Epub PDF} Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde. 1, ratings, average rating, reviews. Your Silence Will Not Protect You Quotes Showing of 6. “There is a distinction I am beginning to make in my living between pain and suffering. Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be Cited by: Lorde’s essays may be necessary, but it is the poetry of Your Silence Will Not Protect You that feels most welcome. As Lorde herself writes in the book’s early essay ‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury’: Women have survived. As poets. And there are no new pains. We have felt them all www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.  · It is heavy reading, but trust me when I say that you will not want to miss a single word. Every page of Audre Lorde's essays and poems is quotable. Everything collected in 'Your Silence Will Not Protect You' speaks so many truths today, and they were written in the '70s and '80s. Lorde says go straight to hell with your angry black woman stereotyp.

Audre Lorde () described herself as #39;Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet#39;. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language - of speaking - to foster selfhood, articulate injustice and bring about change in the world remains as transformative today as it was. Essays and Poems. Audre Lorde (author) Paperback. Be the first to review this product. In stock. SKU. Price £ You're reviewing: Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Nickname. Summary. Review. Submit Review. Guardian Reviews. Explore the longlist for the Booker prize Browse now. Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Audre Lorde (London: Silver Press, ), pp. Paper £ Lorde's words resound with power and clarity, and the quotable simplicity of her language has resulted in some of her phrases becoming mantras within activist circles, feminist conferences and discussions on social justice.

This edition brings Lorde’s essential poetry, speeches and essays, including ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’. ISBN: ISBN Audience: General Format: Paperback Language: English Number Of Pages: Published: 1st February Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems. Audre Lorde (Author) Poetry by individual poets. Her great mantra – and the title of this Lorde reader, which collects for the first time in a single volume a selection of her poetry and essays – was: “Your silence will not protect you.”. It’s strange to think that Lorde would now be (She was 58 when she died in November ).