Full name: The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992

Author: Audre Lorde Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, Gay & Lesbian Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393311709 0393311708

This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives," in the words of Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of ten volumes of poetry and five works of prose. She was named New York State Poet in 1991; her other honors include the Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994. Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill