APG: Audre Lorde’s archive and her practice of archiving her work are great gifts, because we have poetry she wrote from childhood through her entire life. So we see her contemplating big ideas.

In the third chapter of “Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde,” titled “prologue,” author and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This biography will consider what Audre ...

A new biography of Audre Lorde by the poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs is only the second full-length text treatment of the author, who was born in 1934, 16 months after Plath, in Harlem.

A new biography of Audre Lorde by the poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs is only the second full-length text treatment of the author, who was born in 1934, 16 months after Plath, in Harlem ...

“Neither of us has forever,” Alexis Pauline Gumbs quotes Audre Lorde in her expansive biography of the prolific, Harlem-born poet and essayist. Lorde wrote this in a letter to Pat Parker, ...

Gumbs’s biography starts with the idea that Lorde’s political awareness was shaped by the pressing issues of her time, which, in the 1940s, included the threat of nuclear war.

A ‘cosmic’ biography tries to see Audre Lorde as she saw herself “Survival Is a Promise” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs examines the people and ideas that shaped the writer and teacher.