Zami

What a life

关于身份的复杂性

"Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. Another meeting."

写得太好了！做女人如果能有Audre Lorde一半。There's so much New York City in this book. And Audre Lorde is the best of New York City.

非常奇怪的文本，文笔不差。传记的真实性待考，在83年能把这样的经历出版，作者和出版社的压力不会小。不过，现在读这本当然觉得“女权主义倒退了五十年”。LOL。或者说得更清楚一些，在这样的文本下无法割离个人真实经历与过度情感表达。

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from meso different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. Another meeting. 致我生活中的每个friend and lover，每个人都组成了现在的我！！！

"As a Black lesbian poet ……", which is she usually said. She takes her identity as a poet very seriously. Even though feminism has gone through several iterations and some of her ideas are slightly outdated, the original desire for expression and belief in the power of words is always moving.