The Black Unicorn: Poems

by Audre Lorde

Book Overview

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished in an oral tradition, which also blaze and pulse on the page, beneath the reader's eye."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393312372
• ISBN13: 9780393312379
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Lovely copy & quickly shipped

Lovely copy of this title in paperback condition. I appreciate the prompt shipping.

A Forgotten Poetess!

Audre Lorde makes no apologies about herself as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist and a visionary. Her poetry can be quite sensual and sexual at times. From the first poem entitled, "The Black Unicorn," and the "Solstice." Lorde is quite a vocal female character regarding her opinions and views. In 1981, her sexual orientation was not in vogue to be talked about. Lorde's open-ness is quite apparent in her poetry but I would have liked to know some background information regarding each poem since I'm not much of a poetry reader or follower of Audre Lorde but I do admire her work. Too bad, she's gone because she would have been quite an influence in today's society and her voice silenced by her death of cancer robbed the world of her voice.

Wonderful! Attention Catching!

This book caught my attention with breathtaking twists, and supprises! Multisided and mysterious characters, all seeking truth. A WONDERFUL Terry Brooks book.

Really good book

This was a really good book, not as good as the first, but still really good. I really liked the originality of the plot, I never expected what happened to happen, the unicorns being traped in the book and only the black unicorn being able to free them. I also liked the return of the villians from the first book. All the same loveable characters also made a come back. I really enjoyed not knowing what to expect next in this book.

A magical quest for a unicorn

Terry Brooks has done a good job with this book. It took me two days to get through this book and I have read it a couple more times; it has never failed to impress me