{"product_id":"zami-a-new-spelling-of-my-name-a-biomythography-9780143139164","title":"Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new Penguin Vitae hardcover edition of Audre Lorde's trailblazing biomythography that cemented the poet's legacy as a leading voice in intersectional feminism and 20th century literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her 1982 genre-fluid memoir, \u003ci\u003eZami: A New Spelling of My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, Audre Lorde reflects on how her identity was formed by her relationships with women throughout her life, from her early memories of her mother attempting to shield her from the racism and sexism ingrained in American society to the solidarity she found in lesbian communities in downtown New York in the 1950s and among women whom she worked beside. With candor and trenchant yet simple detail, Lorde paints an intimate portrait of her life, granting readers a window into the formative experiences of one of the greatest writers and feminist thinkers of the 20th century. \u003ci\u003eZami: A New Spelling of My Name\u003c\/i\u003e will be the second Lorde title to be featured in the Penguin Vitae collection and will feature a new foreword\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audre Lorde\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143139164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA writer, activist, and mother of two, \u003cb\u003eAudre Lorde \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State's poet laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Black Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoet and scholar \u003cb\u003eEvie Shockley \u003c\/b\u003ehas published four books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003esuddenly we\u003c\/i\u003e, which won an NAACP Image Award and was a National Book Award Finalist, and \u003ci\u003esemiautomatic\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eRenegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of the Academy Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement and the Shelley Memorial Award, Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelinda Goodman \u003c\/b\u003ehas been an adjunct professor at the City University of New York since 1987 when she was chosen by Audre Lorde to take over Lorde's poetry workshops. Goodman was a member of the editorial collective of \u003ci\u003eConditions\u003c\/i\u003e, the first international lesbian literary journal. Her writing has received awards from the Astraea Foundation, the Key West Literary Seminar, the New York Foundation on the Arts, and \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the 2025 winner of Wayne State University's Judith Siegel Pearson Award for poetry. Most recently, her work was published in \u003ci\u003eMorning Writes\u003c\/i\u003e, selections of writing by four older lesbian poets, available from SNAP! Press, a small independent press committed to publishing LGBTQ+, feminist, and community-centered writing.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Audre Lorde \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47659170693277,"sku":"9780143139164","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_c8309ccb-6281-447d-b5c0-9cfade5978c3.jpg?v=1771352257","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/zami-a-new-spelling-of-my-name-a-biomythography-9780143139164","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}