‘A Mighty Voice’: Black feminist intellectual Audre Lorde’s essay book is reissued

The late Black Lesbian and feminist poet Audre Lorde is a contemporary social media darling.

Her quotes are always trending — “Your silence will not protect you,” and “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Her famous dictum about radical self-care, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare,” has become a rallying cry for social justice activists as well as for wellness enthusiasts like Goop’s Gwyneth Paltrow and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

Yet, despite Lorde’s quotable prowess and Internet popularity, and despite the fact that she remains one of the world’s most important literary and intellectual voices, many of her exceptional writings tackling racism, sexism, and homophobia were out of print. But no longer.

Fans of her quotes are now able to dig deeper as one of Lorde’s most important works of prose, “A Burst of Light and Other Essays,” has been reissued.

“To have young people reread Sister Audre, not just to quote or a line or two, but to reread her work is very exciting,” said poet and civil rights activist Sonia Sanchez, who was tapped to write the foreword to the new edition published by Dover Publications’ new …

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