"Vital Writing by Audre Lorde"
"Any opportunity to contemplate Lorde would be a cause for celebration. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, arrives at an especially interesting moment, however. Lorde’s writing has rarely been more influential—or more misunderstood."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
J. Michael Martinez on "The Wake of Maria de Jesus Martinez"
“'The Wake of Maria De Jesus Martinez' was one attempt to write, as form, a casta-like poem, where each section of the lyric was itself of a different time and space, yet, linked through repeating phrases. As the lyric progressed, the work began to be less 'pictorial' and relied more and more on sound: the emotional labor of the poem was performed/rendered through its music." |
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