Chosen Poems: Old and New Lucy R. Lippard " Matisse once said in

" Matisse once said in describing one of his murals

and wider society

she gathered all her rage and grief and took one last leap of faith: she wrote

Wisp of a Thing

Chosen Poems: Old and New Lucy R. Lippard " Matisse once said inChosen Poems is also, Lorde says, "a linguistic and emotional tour through the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the worlds I have inhabited." Among those worlds are such earlier books as The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People Live, New York Head Shop and Museum, and Coal. "Only the worlds of Africa scrutinized in The Black Unicorn, too complex for excerpt, have been excluded." The volume also includes seven new poems. As