Coal - Audre Lorde

nCoal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet. n nMarilyn Hacker captures the essence of Lorde and her poetry: Black, lesbian, mother, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the counterpoint among them is often the material of her strongest poems. n