Throughout her life), and when she was fifteen, her first love poem (to a boy) was published in Seventeen magazine. She began writing in a journal when she was about twelve (an almost daily habit Īt four years of age Lorde spoke her first words: "I want to read." (Tate, p. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (1997) contains ten of her eleven books of poetry ( Under-song is not included). Five of the twenty-five poems in her first book are written to Genny. For the next four years, Lorde wrote a memorial poem to her each spring, and in speeches and writings throughout her life, mourned her loss. "Genny" committed suicide at age sixteen. In high school she found a few friends but Genevieve, the only other black student was her best friend. Rejected and isolated in her predominantly white Catholic elementary school, Lorde handled racism alone. Startled by the unexpected and blatant racism they encountered in the United States, her parents attempted to shield their children by never mentioning it. 17 November 1992) writer, activist.īorn in Harlem at the height of the Great Depression, Audre Lorde was the youngest of three daughters of immigrant parents from the Caribbean island of Grenada.
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