Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 1983 by Crossing Press.
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page. -- Off Our Backs
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”
