Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." A rich gathering of songs and love poems, elegies and narratives, Coal evokes views of city life that are "accident and hard-edged, and sardonic 'cables of rage' humming with their own electricity" (Helen Vendler). Marilyn Hacker…
Author: Audre Lorde · Original publisher: W. W. Norton (1976)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/coal00lord (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: coal00lord; no hosting rights).
