num_pages: 75
description: In this collection, Audre Lorde gives us poems that explore "differences as creative tensions, and the melding of past strength / pain with future hope / fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating force―activism." As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survivor, urban none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems."
language: English
title: Our Dead Behind Us
titlecomplete: Our Dead Behind Us
genres: African American Literature, Fiction, Queer Lit, Classics, Race, Queer, Lesbian, Feminism, Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 424
publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd