The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished in an oral tradition, which also blaze and pulse on the page, beneath the reader's eye."
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This was my first time reading any work by Audre Lorde, and now I want to dive into her whole canon of literature, especially because I have not read many works from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s,
The poems here combine African religion and customs, intersectional prejudice, and the ups and downs of her romantic and sexual relationships into a collection that demands to be reread and further dissected. I would have loved to read this as part of a book club or college course.
Trigger warnings include racism, misogyny, misogynoir, homophobia, and others. All are challenged in the text.
8/10 recommend especially through both historical and contemporary lenses.
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