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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde(b. February 18, 1934 in Harlem) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. She was a black lesbian, mother, warrior poet.

She died of cancer in 1992. She is famous for her poetic works, for which she became State Poet of New York[?] from 1991-1993, including:

The First Cities[?] (1968)
Cables to Rage[?] (1970)
From a Land Where Other People Live[?] (1973)
New York Head Shop and Museum[?](1974)
Coal[?] (1976)
Between Our Selves[?] (1976)
The Black Unicorn[?] (1978)
Chosen Poems: Old and New[?] (1982)
Our Dead Behind Us[?] (1986)
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance[?] (1993)

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