50books_poc 7-8: Audre Lorde, Samuel R. Delaney

[hapex_legomena]

Lorde, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.

in short: Audre Lorde was among other things a black West Indian(-American) lesbian radical feminist, who in feminist circles at least, is best known for the speech “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,” and was a great advocate of intersectionality in feminism. Her

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Delany

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Not inactive, I don't think - he had a novel out a year or two ago, just not SF.

The writing in his autobiographical stuff is way better, I think, and in the more lyrical (non-porn) novels, like Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket. I think there's something about the genre conventions of SF, especially older SF, that asks for a flat tone and lack of characterization that makes everything awfully workmanlike.

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My first thought upon seeing it is that he and Alan Moore should fight. For what I'm not sure. Best pornfiction writer?

My money's on Delaney. Also, I really enjoy your reviews, and I must read more Audre Lorde.

[hapex_legomena]

I'm not sure. Delaney looks like a scrappy fellow, and I'm sure he's eccentric enough to take on Moore, but does he have a basilisk's stare capable of stopping fanboys and -girls alike at twenty paces? Considerations like these are of great import. *nods sagely*