Edited by Joan Wylie Hall '70M.A., '76Ph.D. (University
Press of Mississippi)
This gathering of 21 interviews with the African-American writer
and activist reveals the many sides of a fierce critic of injustice.
The Harlem-born Lorde (1934-92), whose parents were from the
Caribbean, frequently spoke about African-American struggles and
and how differences too often resulted in prejudice and violence.
Along with her work as an activist, she was the author of 11 books
of poetry -- she has been referred to as a "warrior poet"
-- and the experimental autobiography Zami: A New Spelling
of My Name, which she called a biomythography.
(July 2005)
