ISBN:
9780241339725
,
0241339723
Language:
English
Pages:
50 pages
,
16 cm
Series Statement:
Penguin modern 23
DDC:
814.54
Keywords:
Women
;
Feminism
;
African American women
Abstract:
From the self-described 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger and filled with darkness and light
Abstract:
Poetry is not a luxury -- Uses of the erotic -- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house -- Uses of anger: women responding to racism -- Learning from the 1960s
Note:
Most of the essays in this small selection were first given as papers at conferences across the US between 1978 and 1982. Poetry is not a luxury was first published in Chrysalis: A magazine of female culture (1977). These essays appear in Your silence will not protect you, published by Silver Press, 2017
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