Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de biografie. Op 20 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Farrar, Straus and Giroux Survival Is a Primise, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, de biografie van de Amerikaanse lesbische schrijfster geschreven door Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography review en recensie

• “Gumbs’s persuasive close readings create a virtuous circle, shining a light on how the life generated the poems, which now elucidate that life. Her goal is to steer us away from the one-liners … that have too often been Lorde’s legacy and focus us instead on the poet’s forthright voice, on the political and emotional resonance of her work … Gumbs honors Lorde’s desire for an expansive legacy.” (Ayten Tartici, The New York Times Book Review)
• “Layered and original … Gumbs’s book revels in Lorde’s lush multiplicity, moving through the ebbs and flows of her life with both precision and lyricism and expanding the limits of what a biography can be and hold and feel like … The result is a prismatic work of art.” (Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic)
• “An endless constellation of everyone who affected and was affected by Lorde … Survival is a Promise admirably demonstrates the breadth and depth of Lorde’s journey from Harlem to the stars … By recounting Lorde’s story outside linear chronology, and putting her alongside the rivers, forests, radio waves and obsidian, Gumbs is faithful to her subject’s great desire to be something more eternal. But Survival is a Promise finally shows that this cosmic life is achieved through grounded and deep human work.” (Zito Madu, The Washington Post)

Survival Is a Promise

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

• Auteur: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Verenigde Staten)
• Soort boek: biografie
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Penguin
• Verschijnt: 21 augustus 2025
• Omvang: 528 pagina’s
• Uitgave: paperback / ebook
• Prijs: £ 14,99
• Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van schrijfster Audre Lorde

Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre’s 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 friend’s 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 Lorde’s 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. Lorde’s 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 Lorde’s 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.

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