Coal
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:16th Apr '26
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 16th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
‘I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
now take my word for jewel in the open light.’
Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful, celebratory, politically conscious, this early collection faithfully captures the complex interiority of the self. With insight and great feeling, these poems explore racial and sexual politics, liberation and love; they are strongly autobiographical (including poems about Lorde’s children, her sister and her parents, as well as an elegy for a dear childhood friend). These timeless poems resonate down the years.
In poetry that is as compelling for its ethical vision as for its language, Lorde dares to imagine a changed world * San Francisco Chronicle *
For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light -- Hayden Carruth
For the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, Lorde has already become, for many, an indispensable poet -- Adrienne Rich
ISBN: 9780241782965
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 200g
96 pages