Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 (Sapphic Classics) edited by Julie R. Enszer
English | February 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1938334299 | EPUB | 128 pages | 2.3 MB
English | February 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1938334299 | EPUB | 128 pages | 2.3 MB
Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards often with inserted items including articles, money, and video tapes.
SISTER LOVE: THE LETTERS OF AUDRE LORDE AND PAT PARKER 1974-1989 gathers this correspondence for readers to eavesdrop on Lorde and Parker. They discuss their work as writers as well as intimate details of their lives, including periods when each lived with cancer. SISTER LOVE is a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great twentieth century poets.