num_pages: 86
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 woman: 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: Poems
titlecomplete: Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
genres: Feminism, Queer, Classics, LGBT, African American Literature, Poetry, Race, Queer Lit, Fiction, Lesbian
ratings_count: 424
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company