zami: a new spelling of my name

audre lorde

ISBN 10: 0930436156 / ISBN 13: 9780930436155

Published by persephone press, inc, massachusetts, 1982

About this Item

first edition, scarce, 1982. massachusetts: persephone press, inc. isbn: 0-930436-15-6. 256 pages. 8.5 x 5.5". softcover. bound in paper wrappers. book condition: mild reading creases to spine and front wrapper, closed-tear to front wrapper, gentle shelf wear. very good++.

Seller Inventory # 1181

Bibliographic Details

• Title: zami: a new spelling of my name
• Publisher: persephone press, inc, massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930436156
• ISBN 13: 9780930436155
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

"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

From the Back Cover

“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