If you're going to read Audre Lorde's poems, why not read more of her critical work while you're at it? Sister Outsider collects most of Lorde's best known essays, including "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" (1980) and "The Uses of Anger" (1981). If those titles don't strike you as worth-it DIY projects, we don't know what will
How do Audre Lorde's thoughts about "difference" translate to her own work? How does she make room for experiences that are different from hers? And why does Audre Lorde argue that anger is an important tool for feminist politics? Do you get that anger out of her poetry, too?