Being a poet is what determines the “quality of light” by which she examines her life and the world around her, how she scrutinises her at-times chaotic feelings to figure out what information they might hold and what actions they demand. Poetry is also her method of connecting and communicating: her poetic practice is to take up her feelings and... See more

On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge”, Lorde writes:

I am writing these words as a route map

an artifact for survival

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a rudder for my children your children

our lovers our hopes braided