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Just yesterday when i stopped at the corner store to grab a soda, i saw the guy behind the counter reading a newspaper. Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone i loved and i were making love to tell me. Care nor profit whether we write or not but as your body moves under my hands charged and waiting we cut the leash you create me against your thighs hilly with images moving through our word countries my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of.

It was lorde's first collection to be released by a major publisher.

Born in new york city to caribbean immigrants, lorde trained and worked as a j librarian and became a widely published poet in the 1960s, when she also became politically active. The collected poems of audre lorde was published in 1997. Coal consists of five sections. 47 audre lorde poems ranked in order of popularity and relevancy.