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Dness 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. Audre Lorde was such a strong truth teller and master of the craft of poetry For me her poems frankly pulsate with psychic power love feminine majesty pain and cruel facts no one wants to know but must I happened to be reading this collection during the weeks when we learned that there would be no indictments for the police officers who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson MO and Eric Garner in New York City And while this collection of Lorde's poems was published in 1978 two of the 67 poems in this collection The Same Death Over And Over or Lullabies Are For Children and Power mourn the death of Clifford Glover a ten year old black boy who was killed by a white police officer in South Jamaica ueens New York in 1973excerpt from Power I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot woundsand a dead child dragging his shattered blackface off the edge of my sleepblood from his punctured cheeks and shouldersis the only liuid for miles and my stomachchurns at the imagined taste whilemy mouth splits into dry lipswithout loyalty or reasonthirsting for the wetness of his bloodas it sinks into the whitenessof the desert where I am lostwithout imagery or magictrying to make power out of hatred and destructiontrying to heal my dying son with kissesonly the sun will bleach his bones uicker
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The Black Unicorn PoemsRich 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 wil. Lorde’s strongest poetry collection marked by stark images fiery language and elliptical meaning The contrast between the poet’s forthright tone and the many readings her layered poems invite makes for an arresting reading experience