Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 1983 by Crossing Press.
"Lorde, best known for her [poetry] and essays, leaves us with this ... autobiography of her early years as a writer, and as a struggling black lesbian in NYC. Slowly, through gentle inflections of her Grenadian roots and development of the ideas of Caricou society, she stitches together a number of very personal 'mythographies,' ultimately weaving a ... telling of her life"--Review on Amazon.co
Beautiful voice and a life well-imagined.
A beautiful “biomythography”, one of the first to get me into Queer Lit: “I have always wanted to be both man and woman […] to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks. I would like to enter a woman the way any man can, and to be entered – to leave and to be left – to be hot and hard and soft all at the same time in the cause of our loving”
