The collected poems of Audre Lorde

The first cities (1968) --

Cables to rage (1970) --

From a land where other people live (1973) --

New York Head Shop and Museum (1974) --

Coal (1976) --

Between our selves (1976) --

The black unicorn (1978) --

(New poems from) Chosen poems: old and new (1982) --

Our dead behind us (1986) --

The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993).

The first cities (1968): Memorial II --

"I die for all mysterious things" --

A family resemblance --

Coal --

What my child learns of the sea --

Now that I am forever with child --

Bridge through my windows --

Second spring --

Spring III --

Gemini --

To a girl who knew what side her --

Bread was buttered on --

Nightstone --

Father Son and Holy Ghost --

Pirouette --

Generation --

Echo --

Oaxaca --

Father, the year is fallen --

If you come softly --

Suffer the children --

A child shall lead --

A lover's song --

Return --

Suspension --

Cables to rage (1970): Rites of passage --

Summer oracle --

Song --

Spring people --

Rooming houses are old women --

Bloodbirth --

After a first book --

Martha --

And what about the children --

The dozens --

The woman thing --

A poem for a poet --

Conversation in crisis --

Sowing --

Making it --

On a night of the full moon --

Fantasy and conversation --

Dreams bite ... --

From a land where other people live (1973): For each of you --

The day they eulogized Mahalia --

Equinox --

Progress report --

Good mirrors are not cheap --

Black mother woman --

As I grow up again --

The seventh sense --

New Year's day --

Teacher --

Moving out or the end of --

Cooperative living --

Moving in --

Neighbors --

Change of season --

Generation II --

Love, maybe --

Relevant is different --

Points on the circle --

Signs --

Conclusion --

A song of names and faces --

Movement song --

The winds of Orisha --

Who said it was simple --

Dear Toni --

Prologue --

New York head shop and museum (1974): New York City 1970 --

To my daughter the junkie on a train --

To Desi as Joe as smoky the lover of 115th Street --

The American Cancer Society --

A sewerplant grows in Harlem --

A birthday memorial to Seventh Street --

One year to life on Grand Central shuttle --

The workers rose on May day --

Cables to rage --

Keyfood --

A trip on the Staten Island ferry --

My fifth trip to Washington ended In Northeast Delaware --

Now --

To the girl who lives in a tree --

Barren --

Hard love rock #II.

Memorial IV --

Love poem --

Mentor --

The fallen --

Separation --

Even --

Memorial III from a phone booth on Broadway --

And don't think I won't be waiting --

For my singing sister --

Monkeyman --

Naturally --

Song for a thin sister --

Release time --

Revolution is one form of social change --

Oya --

All hallows eve --

Ballad from childhood --

Times change and we change with them --

To Marie, in flight --

The bees --

Viet-nam addenda --

Visit to a city out of time --

The brown menace --

Sacrifice --

Blackstudies --

Coal (1976): Rites of passage --

Father Son and Holy Ghost --

Coal --

Rooming houses are old women --

The woman thing --

Oaxaca --

Summer oracle --

Generation --

A family resemblance --

Song --

On a night of the full moon --

Now that I am forever with child --

What my child learns of the sea --

Spring people --

Poem for a poet --

Story books on a kitchen table --

Pirouette --

Hard love rock --

Father the year has fallen --

Gemini --

Bridge through my window --

Conversations in crisis --

The maiden --

When the saints come marching in --

On midsummer's eve --

Dreams bite --

Suspension --

A child shall lead --

Afterlove --

The dozens --

And what about the children --

For the king and queen of summer --

Fantasy and conversation --

Paperweight --

Martha --

Memorial I --

Memorial II --

The songless lark --

Anniversary --

Second spring --

To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on --

Between our selves (1976): Power --

School note --

Solstice --

Scar --

Between ourselves --

Outside --

A woman/dirge for wasted children --

The black unicorn (1978): The black unicorn --

A woman speaks --

From the house of Yemanja --

Coniagui women --

A rock thrown into the water does not fear the cold --

Dahomey --

125th Street and Abomey --

The women of Dan --

Sahara --

Harriet --

Chain --

Sequelae --

For Assata --

At first I thought you were --

Talking about ... --

A litany for survival --

Meet --

Seasoning --

Touring --

Walking our boundaries --

Eulogy for Alvin Frost --

Chorus --

Coping.

To Martha: a New Year --

In Margaret's garden --

Scar --

Portrait --

A song for many movements --

Brother Alvin --

School note --

Digging --

Outside --

Therapy --

The same death over and over --

Ballad for ashes --

A woman/dirge for wasted children --

Parting --

Timepiece --

Fog report --

Pathways: from mother to mother --

Death dance for a poet --

Dream/songs from the moon of Beulah Land I-V --

Recreation --

Woman --

Timing --

Ghost --

Artisan --

Letter for Jan --

Bicentennial poem # 21,000,000 --

The old days --

Contact lenses --

Lightly --

Hanging fire --

But what can you teach my daughter --

From inside an empty purse --

A small slaughter --

From the greenhouse --

Journeystones I-XI --

About religion --

Sister outsider --

Bazaar --

Power --

Eulogy --

"Never take fire from a woman" --

Between ourselves --

Future promise --

The Trollop maiden --

Solstice --

A glossary of African names used in the poems --

(New poems from) Chosen poems: Old and new (1982): The evening news --

Za Ki Tan ke parlay lot --

Afterimages --

A poem for women in rage --

October --

Sister, morning is a time for miracles --

Need: a choral of black women's voices --

Our dead behind us (1986): Sisters in arms --

To the poet who happens to be black and the black poet who happens to be a woman --

Outlines --

Stations --

Equal opportunity --

Soho cinema --

Vigil --

Berlin is hard on colored girls --

This urn contains earth from German --

Concentration camps --

Mawu --

Fishing the white water --

On the edge --

Naming the stories --

Diaspora --

The horse casts a shoe --

Reins --

Wood has no mouth --

A meeting of minds --

The art of response --

From the cave --

A question of climate --

Out to the hard road --

Every traveler has one Vermont poem --

For Judith --

For Jose and Regina --

Beverly's poem --

Big apple circus --

Florida --

Home --

Burning the water hyacinth --

Political relations --

Learning to write --

On my way out I pass --

Over you and the Verrazano Bridge --

Out of the wind --

Holographs --

There are no honest poems.

About dead women --

A question of essence --

For the record --

Ethiopia --

Generation III --

Never to dream of spiders --

Beams --

Call --

The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993): Smelling the wind --

Legacy --

hers --

Making love to concrete --

Echoes --

Domino --

Thaw --

Party time --

Prism --

Do you remember Laura --

Inheritance --

His --

The one who got away --

Depreciation --

Syracuse airport --

Thanks to Jesse Jackson --

Judith's fancy --

Production --

Building --

jessehelms --

Dear Joe --

Women on trains --

The politics of addiction --

Kitchen linoleum --

Oshun's table --

Parting --

Peace on earth --

Restoration: a memorial-9/18/91 --

Starting all over again --

What it means to be beautiful --

Hugo I --

Construction --

Speechless --

For Craig --

East Berlin --

The night-blooming Jasmine --

Girfriend --

Lunar eclipse --

Change --

Today is not the day --

The electric slide boogie.