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According to Wikipedia, Audre Lorde was an American writer, womanist, radical feminist, professor, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," who "dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia."

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Audre Lorde's Published Works

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) (2575)
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1978) (514)
Out There : Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures (1990) (413)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984) (353)
The Cancer Journals (1980) (315)
The Uses of Anger (1981) (140)
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (1997) (102)
A Burst of Light: Essays (1988) (97)
Above the Wind: An Interview with Audre Lorde (1991) (61)
An Interview with Audre Lorde (1981) (57)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (1978) (44)
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving (1978) (37)
GRENADA REVISITED: AN INTERIM REPORT* (1984) (20)
Of Generators and Survival-Hugo Letter (1991) (19)
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems (1986) (19)
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (1992) (16)
SHOWING OUR TRUE COLORS (1991) (15)
Feminist Autobiography in the 1980s (1991) (14)
From a Land Where Other People Live (1973) (13)
Chosen poems, old and new (1982) (13)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name@@@Sister Outsider (1984) (12)
Desire Work, Performativity, and the Structuring of a Community: Butch/Fem Relations of the 1940s and g95os (1996) (7)
The New York Head Shop and Museum (1974) (5)
To the Poet Who Happens to be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to be a Woman (1991) (3)
Berlin is Hard on Colored Girls (1986) (2)
Conference Keynote Address: Sisterhood and Survival (1986) (2)
Apartheid U.S.A (1986) (2)
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems: 1987-1992 (1993) (2)
What I Do When I Write... (1989) (1)
On My Way out I Passed over You and the Verrazano Bridge (1988) (1)
Fishing the White Water (1991) (1)
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum on Black Male/Female Relationships (1979) (1)
A Poem for Women in Rage (1981) (1)
The first cities (1968) (1)
Of Sisters and Secrets: from Prosepiece (1979) (1)
"A Painful Growth Into Selfhood"@@@Zami, a New Spelling of My Name. (1985) (1)
Dynamics of Difference (1984) (0)
The Politics of Addiction (1991) (0)
We Are Piecing Our Weapons Together@@@Our Dead Behind Us. (1986) (0)
Sisters in Arms (1986) (0)
Out to The Hard Road (1991) (0)
Women on Trains (2000) (0)
3.1 ‘A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer’ (1999) (0)
Making Love to Concrete (1991) (0)
Dear Joe: For Joe Beam (2000) (0)
The Evening News (1982) (0)
This Urn Contains Earth From German Concentration Camps: Plotzensee Memorial, West Berlin, 1984 (1991) (0)
What Is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today: The Bill Whitehead Memorial Award Ceremony-1990 (ABA-Las Vegas) (1991) (0)
"In Memory of Our Children's Blood": Sisterhood and South African Women. (1986) (0)
A poetics of address : speech and dialogue in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde (1993) (0)
Women on Trains (1991) (0)

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