Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidence through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards often with inserted items including articles, money, and videotapes.
The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 gathers this unique correspondence in which Lorde and Parker discuss their work as writers as well as the intimate details of their lives, including periods when each lived with cancer. These letters are a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great twentieth century poets.
ISBN: | 9781068644610 |
Publication date: | 12th October 2024 |
Author: | Audre Lorde, Pat Parker |
Publisher: | the87press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 111 pages |
Genres: |
Diaries, letters and journals Feminism and feminist theory LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Women’s health Relationships: friends / peer groups Social discrimination and social justice Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets Political activism / Political engagement |