![]() ![]() Her experience as a poet in residence at Tougaloo College in Mississippi (her first trip to the Deep South, her first workshop situation with young African American students, her first time away from her children) and the circumstances that followed her stay there (Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Robert Kennedy's death, a close friend's accident) made her see the shortness of life and the necessity for immediate action. While this collection was only republished once (1972) under the same title, more than two-thirds of the pieces in the early volume were later selected for inclusion in Chosen Poems: Old and New (1982) and Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, Revised (1992).Īlthough Lorde's poetry was published in several British and European anthologies as well as in African American literary magazines during the 1960s, it was not until she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1968 that she was able to devote herself full-time to her writing. ![]() ![]() Published in London in 1970 by Paul Breman Limited, was the second volume of poetry written by African American poet, essayist, and activist Audre Lorde. ![]()
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