{"product_id":"sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-paperback","title":"Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAudre Lorde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCheryl Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to \"never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . \"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA writer, activist, and mother of two, \u003cb\u003eAudre Lorde\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State's Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including \u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701591241011,"sku":"9781580911863","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eEtRZ0tsWnJVcFVCd0x6WHl3ZGZFZz09.webp?v=1763269167","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}