Title: Zami Pdf A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Author: Audre Lorde
Published Date: 1982
Page: 256
A writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ZAMI and THE BLACK UNICORN. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992.
Well written but ... Beautiful prose. Almost poetic in the beginning. But then the author drifts into the weeds and the details and the meandering is boring and tiresome. Would love to reach the end of a fairly long story but I am on my hands and knees trying to deal with all the characters and distractions. However, I do like the gist that I gather from other reviews … a woman from childhood becoming aware of her sexuality. Great subject!A new perspective I am not gay, and knew little of the NY life, gay or straight ,before the 1950s, so the book was a revelation for me. Explicit depictions of lesbian lovemaking, even when poetic, were disturbing for me.. Sometimes.the novel was boring, with too many characters and detail, easily forgotten. I would have liked more poetry. However, it was of interest as an unusual coming of age story by a woman who learns to accept herself despite being an outsider in many ways.A great memoir This memoir blew me away. Audre Lorde writes poetically, and captures your attention right away. She doesn't shy away from the racism and queermisia that happened in her life while she was growing up as a Black lesbian woman in New York. But I could really connect with Audre, and I already know I will be re-reading Zami in the future.
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