New Biography Opens a Portal Into the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

In Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers an erudite, meticulously researched biography of the legendary Black lesbian feminist poet that simultaneously functions as homage, incantation, critical inquiry, collective exploration and poetic evocation. Gumbs writes that “following Audre’s lead I care more about offering well-researched wonder than I do [...]