Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, Revised

by Audre Lorde

Overview

"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document...."—Adrienne Rich

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393309751
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/28/1992
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	222
Sales rank:	365,624
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) published nine volumes of poetry and five works of prose. She was a recipient of many distinguished honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford Colleges, and was named New York State Poet (1991-1993).

Editorial Reviews

... It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process. Readers new to Lorde's work will meet here a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives. Readers of The Black Unicorn, Sister Outsider, The Cancer Journals, A Burst of Light, and Our Dead Behind Us, and the thousands who have attended her poetry readings and speeches, will recognize in this book the roots and the growing-points of a transformative writer. Never has a poet left so clear and conscious a track of artistic choices made in the trajectory of a life. Far from rewriting old poems to fit a changes historical moment, she has finely rehoned formal elements to illuminate the original poems. Throughout, Lorde's lifelong themes of love and anger, family politics, sexuality, and the body of the city can be seen gathering in power and clarity.”

Adrienne Rich