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Walking Our Boundaries

  • Audre Lorde
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Super Gay Poems
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© 2025 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2025 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Homosexuality 11
  5. Carol, in the park, chewing on straws 17
  6. We Are Leaves 22
  7. Twenty- One Love Poems, XIII 29
  8. Manos karastefanis 34
  9. Walking Our Boundaries 39
  10. Bally Power Play 45
  11. The First Time 51
  12. Nights of 1962: The River Merchant’s Wife 56
  13. The Worrying 63
  14. 7301 69
  15. Mummy and donor and Deirdre 74
  16. Object Lessons 80
  17. Mermaid 85
  18. Suits and Ties 91
  19. The Falling Sky 97
  20. Jump Back in Me Now 102
  21. The Underwriters 107
  22. In the South That Winter 112
  23. Notes toward dropping out 117
  24. looking out now aftr a recent brek up 124
  25. Found in diary dated May 29, 1973 130
  26. Riding Westward 135
  27. The Broken (I) (2007) 140
  28. Takeoff (2007) 149
  29. Apparition (2008) 155
  30. What the Future Has in Store (2009) 161
  31. Evocation (2009) 171
  32. Glass Orgasm (2009) 176
  33. Deidre (2010) 182
  34. Lessons in Woodworking (2012) 187
  35. Queer 192
  36. Unknown duration of Fear / A Human Being Realizes They Are Alone for the First Time in 12 Hours 198
  37. Heart Condition 204
  38. The First of Never (2015) 208
  39. Bisexuality 213
  40. Cancer, Leo Rising 219
  41. The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep 224
  42. After Catullus 5 234
  43. Dis Pure diss 239
  44. Sexual History 244
  45. She Ties My Bow Tie 249
  46. You Throw a Party and Every one You Have Ever Been Attracted To Is T here 253
  47. Prayer of the Slut 259
  48. la cortadura / the cut 264
  49. Indo-Queer I 273
  50. Poly Beach House 278
  51. Waiting for You to Die So I Can Be Myself (2022) 283
  52. She- Viper with Tales Outstretched 288
  53. Summer 294
  54. So Your GF Wants to Come Out as Bi and Polyamorous to Her Very Conservative Family 300
  55. Sources 309
  56. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 333
  57. CREDITS 335
  58. INDEX 343
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