{"product_id":"sister-outsider-audre-lorde-9781580911863","title":"Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches","description":"\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 \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 . . . \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audre Lorde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1580911862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781580911863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crossing Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2007 pg. 100","brand":"Audre Lorde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054077636863,"sku":"9781580911863","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3f95872-b2a0-4abf-bee4-e4ba366b28e2.jpg?v=1685027861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sister-outsider-audre-lorde-9781580911863","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}