Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde,Ĭelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. 's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone. It's always great to have an intersectional tome on hand." -Amanda Gorman A collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books
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