Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs H

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Survival is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs An exhilarating, lyrical cosmic biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre LordeA Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audres fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are.Audre Lorde was a survivor- of childhood disability injustice, of her best friends suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her.This stunning new account of Lordes life and work illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about how to live on, and with, a planet in transformation. Lordes commitment to justice was intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world; with the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For Lorde, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be on earth, and how to live fully as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet.In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lordes manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, scholar and activist. She has published several books, including Spill- Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and Undrowned- Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, which won a Whiting Award in non-fiction. In 2023, Gumbs received a Windham Campbell Prize for her luminous, visionary poetry. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Review An exhilarating account of the feminist and civil rights pioneer Audre Lorde and what she can teach us about navigating todays fraught politics, from poet and activist Gumbs * Guardian - 2024 Books to Watch *In addition to being one of our greatest living poets, Gumbs is perhaps our most knowledgeable expert on Audre Lordes life and work * Lit Hub - Most Anticipated Books of 2024 *Only Alexis Pauline Gumbs could have written Audre Lordes life story in seven dimensions. She is Lordes spiritual daughter, and Survival Is a Promise is no mere biography - it is a communion, an ancestral divination, a long, intimate walk in which history, poetry, politics and wisdom are passed to a new generation -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Freedom of Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *Alexis Pauline Gumbs has been a kindred keeper of Audre Lordes lesbian warrior poet legacy for nearly two decades. This long-overdue and yet right-on-time biography of the Lorde caresses and transgresses the limits of genre, to care for all the women and girls that Audre Lorde ever was or hoped to be. Nobody tends to Black Girls stories like Gumbs, who takes Black women deadly, rigorously seriously. This book is a study in mastery of forms, with the kind of sacred irreverence that makes clear who the real geniuses always were. I read this book and could hear the Lorde saying, And it was good -- Brittney Cooper * author of the New York Times bestseller, Eloquent Rage *Survival Is a Promise is a lightning strike of a biography on The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. It is poetic in form, political in scope, and revelatory in understanding Lordes divine relationship to the earth as an ecological thinker. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has created a community of poetic ancestors, including June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and Fannie Lou Hamer, now eternal sisters with whom she stands alongside in a circle of relationships. Gumbs describes the work of Audre Lorde as a black archive of buried photosynthesis. In her hands, it is pure light in the vitality of the struggle. This singular volume is a force field of love full of prophetic dreaming animating not only what is possible but necessary. Power lives in this book. Chapter by stunning chapter, this spiritual biography made me want to be braver in voice and spirit -- Terry Tempest Williams * writer-in-residence, Harvard Divinity School *A passionate and loving evocation of an extraordinary life, Survival is a Promise is moving and inspiring. Alexis Pauline Gumbs conjures up her subject with imagination and inventiveness, producing a portrait of Audre Lorde that is rich and resonant -- Emily JeremiahThis is the one book I would take with me to my desert Island. I would survive on the nectar of Gumbs rich dark earthy prose and drink in the sweet pain of Lordes blackness so I can see the hopeful dawn of her fierce love on the horizon and know I will be saved. Thats the promise of this book -- Heidi Safia MirzaWith Survival is a Promise Alexis Pauline Gumbs has succeeded in crafting a multi-faceted diamond of a biography lovingly tracing the shape of Lordes impact upon this earth, her eternal life. Dazzling like a burst of light, nurturing like a gray whale and fierce like a hurricane, this book is a gift of "well-researched wonder" that deftly holds close possibility, imagination, questioning and the sensuality of the archive. I dare you to read it and not recognise that Lordes story is inseparable from the story of all life, even yours -- Stella Bolaki * co-editor of Audre Lordes Transnational Legacies *Alexis Pauline Gumbs book is a powerful and poetic affirmation of Lordes defiant life and work, re-membered now through a shapeshifting cloud of connexions with people, ideas, places, objects, feelings. You can begin reading this fiercely imaginative text on any page and be drawn into the radical and urgent promise of survival in the face of political and planetary troubles that haunt us still -- Nitasha Kaul * Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies *A life-giving enquiry into the visionary Audre Lorde. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, an extraordinary poet, composes this remarkable work from many growing tips that tangle and entwine. Flowing through this adventure is a vital pulse of insight: Poetry is woven through our flesh and is fundamental to the way we think, feel, imagine, heal, and transform. Gumbss breathtaking telling of Lorde is an intimate guide to some of poetrys most fierce and tender powers -- Merlin Sheldrake * author of Entangled Life *A scholarly lovesong to the power and wonder of words … Imaginative, poetic and inspirational, Survival is a Promise is a burst of light. A spell-binding account of Audre Lordes life, work and legacy -- Emma ParkerInnovative … Gumbs disintegrates, rearranges and examines all the matter that created Lorde, enabling her to unearth the many layers of feeling evoked by her lesser known poetry … Survival is a Promise shows us the kind of complex and radiant scholarship that emerges when scholars dig deeper, refusing to treat the life and work of Black feminist figures as self-evident -- Lola Olufemi * Guardian *An award-winning poet, writer, feminist and activist in her own right, Gumbs is among the first researchers to delve into Lordes manuscript archives. The resulting book highlights the late authors commitment to interrogating what it means to survive on this planet—and how Lordes radical understanding of ecology can guide us today * NPR *Masterful … Gumbs writing is multilayered, poetic and beautiful, making this book more than a biography. Its a meeting of two minds … Survival Is a Promise bears an important and hopeful message for us all: Survival is a communal act of care -- Catherine Hollis * BookPage *A feast for the intellect -- and the soul * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *The American writer, poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde was an incredible human being and this book, which focuses on her life and work, is truly special -- Elif Shafak * The Times * Details ISBN0241505712 Author Alexis Pauline Gumbs Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241505717 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-08-20 Imprint Allen Lane Subtitle The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-08-20 Pages 528 ISBN-10 0241505712 NZ Release Date 2024-11-18 AU Release Date 2024-11-18 DEWEY 818.54 Alternative 9780141996202 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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