About the author

Audre Lorde (; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, and the exploration of black female identity.

In relation to non-intersectional feminism in the United States, Lorde famously said, "those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support."

Der er ingen ærlige digte om døde kvinder

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) beskrev sig selv som “sort, lesbisk, mor, kriger, digter”. Hun slog nationalt og internationalt igennem med sine digte og essays, der især konfronterede racisme, sexisme, klasseskel og vold mod kvinder, og undersøgte begær, kærlighed og moderskab. 
Der er ingen ærlige digte om døde kvinder, som nu foreligger i en pocketudgave, præsenterer et udvalg af Audre Lordes digte fra syv af hendes ni digtsamlinger, udgivet i perioden 1973-93. Digtene er udvalgt og oversat af digteren Shadi Angelina Bazeghi, som også har skrevet bogens efterord. 

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“Audre Lordes digte er politiske, mange af dem på måder, som ikke er pæne, men skrækkelige og overrumplende, fordi de er så fulde af materie, af krop og af død. Man skal dog ikke tage fejl: Lordes digte er også poetiske. Slående er især rytmen, som er smukt bevaret i Shadi Angelina Bazeghis oversættelse.” ♥♥♥♥♥♥  POLITIKEN 

“Der er en åbenlyst revolutionær kraft i Lordes digte (...) I hendes digte bliver smerten, sorgen og vreden til redskaber, der kan forandre verden (...) En uvurderlig stemme.”  INFORMATION
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Edition2
Printed pages88
Publish date17 Sep 2020
Published byOVO press
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ISBN print9788793312173