Book Review: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Synopsis:
SISTER OUTSIDER presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope--one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . ." --Amazon

Review:
If you are not already an admirer of Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, a collection of her essays and speeches, will definitely convert you.

Filled with urgency, anger, passion and suffering, these works will make you think. Delivered in the poetic style that is so typical of Audre Lorde, the pieces will also pull out the sentimental within you.

My favorite essays within this collection remain “The Transformation of Silence into Action,” “Uses of the Erotic,” “Man Child,” and “Age, Race, Class and Sex.”

5 stars.