The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 (Paperback)

Audre Lorde

ISBN 10: 0393311708 / ISBN 13: 9780393311709

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

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Paperback. This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by Audre Lorde, "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives", in the words of Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde was a poet of the city of her birth, New York, as well as of other urban landscapes. She spoke of the Caribbean, Africa, Europe. She brought to all these places a true cosmopolitan vision, one dissatisfied with the usual description of things, one eager for truth-telling, for change. She spoke of her hopes for this, her final offering to the world she traveled: "Beyond the penchant for easy definitions, false exactitudes, we share a hunger for enduring value, relationship beyond hierarchy and outside reproach, a hunger for life measures, complex, direct, and flexible.I want this book to be filled with shards of light thrown off from the shifting tensions between the dissimilar, for that is the real stuff of creation and growth". This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 (Paperback)
• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393311708
• ISBN 13: 9780393311709
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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39 poems written between 1987 and 1992 by the woman Adrienne Rich has called, "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives."

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This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives," in the words of Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of ten volumes of poetry and five works of prose. She was named New York State Poet in 1991; her other honors include the Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994.