The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Lorde, Audre -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Contents Editor’s Note The First Cities (1968)

Memorial II “I Die for All Mysterious Things” A Family Resemblance Coal What My Child Learns of the Sea Now that I Am Forever with Child Bridge through My Windows Second Spring Spring III Gemini To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On Nightstone Father Son and Holy Ghost Pirouette Generation Echo Oaxaca Father, the Year Is Fallen If You Come Softly Suffer the Children A Child Shall Lead A Lover’s Song Return Suspension

Cables To Rage (1970)

Rites of passage Summer oracle Song Spring people Rooming houses are old women Bloodbirth After a first book Martha And what about the children The dozens The woman thing A poem for a poet Conversation in crisis Sowing Making it On a night of the full moon Fantasy and conversation Dreams bite .. .

From a Land Where Other People Live (1973)

For Each of You The Day They Eulogized Mahalia Equinox Progress Report Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap Black Mother Woman As I Grow Up Again The Seventh Sense New Years Day Teacher Moving Out or The End of Cooperative Living Moving In Neighbors Change of Season Generation II Love, Maybe Relevant Is Different Points on the Circle Signs Conclusion A Song of Names and Faces Movement Song The Winds of Orisha Who Said It Was Simple Dear Toni Prologue

New York Head Shop and Museum (1974)

New York City 1970 To My Daughter The Junkie On A Train To Desi As Joe As Smoky The Lover Of 115th Street The American Cancer Society A Sewerplant Grows In Harlem A Birthday Memorial To Seventh Street One Year To Life On The Grand Central Shuttle The Workers Rose On May Day Cables to Rage Keyfood A Trip On The Staten Island Ferry My Fifth Trip To Washington Ended In Northeast Delaware Now To the Girl Who Lives In A Tree Barren Hard Love Rock #II Memorial IV Love Poem Mentor The Fallen Separation Even Memorial III From A Phone Booth On Broadway And Don’t Think I Wont Be Waiting For My Singing Sister Monkeyman Naturally Song For A Thin Sister Release Time Revolution Is One Form Of Social Change Oya All Hallows Eve Ballad From Childhood Times Change And We Change With Them To Marie, in Flight The Bees Viet-Nam Addenda Visit To A City Out Of Time The Brown Menace Sacrifice Blackstudies

Coal (1976)

Rites of Passage Father Son and Holy Ghost Coal Rooming Houses Are Old Women The Woman Thing Oaxaca Summer Oracle Generation A Family Resemblance Song On a Night of the Full Moon Now That I Am Forever with Child What My Child Learns of the Sea Spring People Poem for a Poet Story Books on a Kitchen Table Pirouette Hard Love Rock Father the Year Has Fallen Gemini Bridge through My Window Conversations in Crisis The Maiden When the Saints Come Marching in On Midsummers Eve Dreams Bite Suspension A Child Shall Lead Afterlove The Dozens And What About the Children For the King and Queen of Summer Fantasy and Conversation Paperweight Martha Memorial I Memorial II The Songless Lark Anniversary Second Spring To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On

Between Our Selves (1976)

Power School Note Solstice Scar Between Ourselves Outside A Woman/Dirge for Wasted Children

The Black Unicorn (1978)

The Black Unicorn A Woman Speaks From the House of Yemanjá Coniagui Women A Rock Thrown into the Water Does Not Fear the Cold Dahomey 125th Street and Abomey The Women of Dan Sahara Harriet Chain Sequelae For Assata At First I Thought You Were Talking About. . . A Litany for Survival Meet Seasoning Touring Walking Our Boundaries Eulogy for Alvin Frost Chorus Coping To Martha: A New Year In Margaret’s Garden Scar Portrait A Song for Many Movements Brother Alvin School Note Digging Outside Therapy The Same Death Over and Over Ballad for Ashes A Woman/Dirge for Wasted Children Parting Timepiece Fog Report Pathways: From Mother to Mother Death Dance for a Poet Dream/Songs from the Moon of Beulah Land I–V Recreation Woman Timing Ghost Artisan Letter for Jan Bicentennial Poem #21,000,000 The Old Days Contact Lenses Lightly Hanging Fire But What Can You Teach My Daughter From Inside an Empty Purse A Small Slaughter From the Greenhouse Journeys tones I–XI About Religion Sister Outsider Bazaar Power Eulogy “Never Take Fire from a Woman” Between Ourselves Future Promise The Trollop Maiden Solstice A Glossary of African Names Used in the Poems (NEW POEMS FROM) CHOSEN POEMS: OLD AND NEW (1982) The Evening News Za Ki Tan Ke Parlay Lot Afterimages A Poem For Women In Rage October Sister, Morning Is A Time For Miracles Need: A Choral Of Black Womens Voices

Our Dead Behind Us (1986)

Sisters in Arms To the Poet Who Happens to Be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman Outlines Stations Equal Opportunity Soho Cinema Vigil Berlin Is Hard on Colored Girls This Urn Contains Earth from German Concentration Camps Mawu Fishing the White Water On the Edge Naming the Stories Diaspora The Horse Casts a Shoe Reins Wood Has No Mouth A Meeting of Minds The Art of Response From the Cave A Question of Climate Out to the Hard Road Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem For Judith For Jose and Regina Beverly’s Poem Big Apple Circus Florida Home Burning the Water Hyacinth Political Relations Learning to Write On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge Out of the Wind Holographs There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women A Question of Essence For the Record Ethiopia Generation III Never to Dream of Spiders Beams Call

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance (1993)

Smelling the Wind Legacy—Hers Making Love to Concrete Echoes Domino Thaw Party Time Prism Do You Remember Laura Inheritance—His The One Who Got Away Depreciation Syracuse Airport Thanks to Jesse Jackson Judith’s Fancy Production Building jessehelms Dear Joe Women on Trains The Politics of Addiction Kitchen Linoleum Oshun’s Table Parting Peace on Earth Restoration: A Memorial—9/18/91 Starting All Over Again What It Means to Be Beautiful Hugo I Construction Speechless For Craig East Berlin The Night-Blooming Jasmine Girlfriend Lunar Eclipse Change Today Is Not the Day The Electric Slide Boogie

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