Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre Lorde /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Smelling the wind
  • The winds of the orisha
  • Prologue
  • Oya
  • Ballad from childhood
  • Story books on a kitchen table
  • Rites of passage
  • Naming the stories
  • Blackstudies
  • All hallows eve
  • Good mirros are not cheap
  • School note
  • Brother alvin
  • Inheritance-his
  • The brown menace
  • Fantasy and conversation
  • Poem for a poet
  • Peace on earth
  • Generation
  • Contact lenses
  • Pirouette
  • Spring iii
  • Teacher
  • The songless lark
  • Father, the year is fallen
  • (To marie) in flight
  • Artisan
  • Portrait
  • Naturally
  • Fishing the white water
  • Solstice
  • From the greenhouse
  • 125th st. and abomey
  • Timing
  • A child shall lead
  • A litany for survival
  • Memorial i-iv
  • Now
  • Father son and holy ghost
  • Za ki tan ke parlay lot
  • Legacy-hers
  • Hard rock love
  • On the edge
  • Girlfriend
  • For each of you
  • Eulogy
  • Sister morning is a time for miracles
  • In the house of yemaya
  • Home
  • Beams
  • Relevant is different points on the circle
  • Afterimages
  • At first i thought you were talking about
  • Digging
  • Future promise
  • Call
  • Parting
  • A question of climate.