Jamie reviewed Zami, a new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde (Crossing Press feminist series)
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5 stars
Beautiful voice and a life well-imagined.
256 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 1982 by Persephone Press.
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”