6/29/2023 0 Comments Undersong audre lorde![]() ![]() Throughout the 1960s Lorde published her poetry in various black literary magazines, and from 1966 to 1968 she was the head librarian at Town School Library in New York City. In 1962 she married attorney Edward Ashley Rollins, with whom she had two children. Lorde worked as a young adult librarian at the public library in Mount Vernon, New York, until 1963. She went on to study library science at Columbia University and graduated with a master's degree in 1961. She attended Hunter College, graduating in 1959 with a bachelor's degree. In high school Lorde was literary editor of the school's arts magazine and published one of her poems in Seventeen. Her parents, Frederic Byron Lorde and Linda Belmar Lorde, were immigrants from the Caribbean country of Grenada Lorde was educated at Catholic schools. Her writing is largely autobiographical in content and frankly addresses accepted notions of race, femininity, and personal identity in late-twentieth-century America. Deeply influenced by the marginalization she experienced as a black lesbian, Lorde wrote in order to give a voice to those disenfranchised by racism, sexism, and homophobia. Lorde is admired for her passionate, candid, often confrontational poetry and prose. ![]() (Full name Audre Geraldine Lorde) American poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist.įor additional information on Lorde's career, see Black Literature Criticism, Ed. ![]()
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