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"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

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I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration. At last I felt I fitted in. (Jackie Kay)

Excellent and evocative... personal honesty and lack of pretentiousness shine through the writing. Her experiences are painted with exquisite imagery (The New York Times)

Zami is important because of its descriptions of growing up a black lesbian feminist in the 1950s, with open, unapologetic, vivid descriptions of women's relationships (Guardian)

Her work is so quotable. It has the zeitgeist factor. Now, just as much as ever, we need the voice of Audre Lorde (New Statesman)

I have an Audre Lorde google alert on my phone. It helps confirm how relevant my favorite black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet remains today (Huffington Post)

Audre Lorde says it best (Refinery29)

Lorde's examination of her multiple outsiderness pried my sheltered mind wide open (Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home (in ‘My Ten Favorite Books,’ New York Times Magazine))

Zami is just the best (Vice)

Zami made me realise that I was not alone ... that I, too, could be as courageous and as loud with my truths (Elle Magazine)

Zami feels larger than life - almost legendary - while remaining grounded, intimate and moving (Cosmopolitan)
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“Zami. Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers.”

In this classic autobiography Audre Lorde combines elements of history, biography and myth to tell her own story. A young black girl grows up in thirties Harlem, a teenager lives through Pearl Harbour, a young woman experiences McCarthyism in fifties Greenwich Village. In and out of this lyrical chronicle move the women – mothers, lovers, friends – who are zami: ‘Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon on me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me – so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognise her.”

“Lorde is a convincing, powerful writer. Her prose speaks directly to the heart of racism, self-acceptance, mother- and womanhood”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Listen to this rich and raging voice”
ADRIENNE RICH

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  • PublisherCrossing Press
  • Publication date1982
  • ISBN 10 0895941228
  • ISBN 13 9780895941220
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages272
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