The Black Unicorn

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."

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) published eleven volumes of poetry and five works of prose. Her constellation of honors includes honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford colleges.

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publish Date: August 17, 1995
• Pages: 136
• Dimensions: 5.4 X 8.1 X 0.4 inches | 0.2 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780393312379
• BISAC Categories: American - African American, Poetry, American - African American