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AUDRE LORDE: Dream of Europe 90000> SELECTED SEMINARS and INTERVIEWS 1984–1992 ISBN 978-0-9997198-7-9 AUDRE LORDE: dream of europe 90000> SELECTED SEMINARS AND INTERVIEWS 1984–1992 9780999 719879 AUDRE LORDE AUDRE : dream of europe dream of AUDRE LORDE: dream of europe elucidates Lorde’s methodology as a poet, mentor, and activist during the last decade of her life. This volume compiles a series of seminars, interviews, and conversations held by the author and collaborators across Berlin, Western Europe, and The Caribbean between 1984-1992. While Lorde stood at the intersection of various historical and literary movements in The United States—the uprising of black social life after the Harlem Renaissance, poetry of the AIDS epidemic, and the unfolding of the Civil Rights Movement-- this selection of texts reveals Lorde as a catalyst for the first movement of Black Germans in West Berlin. Lorde’s intermittent residence in Berlin lasted for nearly ten years, a period where she inspired many important local and global initiatives, from individual poets to international movements. The legacy of this “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” has been well persevered by her colleagues in Germany. It is an erotics of friendship that allowed Lorde and her collaborators EDITIONSKENNING to develop a strong sense of political responsibility for each other, transforming alliance and love Edited, with an afterword between women into tools for social change. These selected writings lay bare struggles, bonds, and by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro Preface by Dagmar Schultz hopes shared among Black women in a transnational political context. POETRY | POLITICS KENNING EDITIONS POETRY | POLITICS KENNING EDITIONS AUDRE LORDE Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 2-3 11/14/19 8:39 AM DREAM OF EUROPE SELECTED SEMINARS AND INTERVIEWS: 1984-1992 Edited, with an afterword, by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro Preface by Dagmar Schultz CHICAGO: KENNING EDITIONS Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 4-5 11/14/19 8:39 AM DREAM OF EUROPE SELECTED SEMINARS AND INTERVIEWS: 1984-1992 Edited, with an afterword, by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro Preface by Dagmar Schultz CHICAGO: KENNING EDITIONS Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 4-5 11/14/19 8:39 AM FOR DAGMAR SCHULTZ AND IKA HÜGEL-MARSHAL, CONTENTS THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING ME INTO YOUR HOME. FOR MY MOTHER, 9 PREFACE IN DEEP RESPECT FOR YOUR SURVIVAL. 13 LETTER FROM DAGMAR SCHULTZ Published by Kenning Editions in spring, 2020. Library of Congress Control Number:2019944569 19 BLACK WOMEN’S POETRY SEMINAR Cover design by Faride Mereb /Interior composition by Patrick 75 THE POET AS OUTSIDER Durgin and set in ITC OFFICINA SANS by Erik Spiekerman, Minion Pro by Robert Slimbach, and Miller Text by Matthew Carter. 117 INTERVIEWS 1984 - 1989 Distributed by Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh Street, 165 READINGS 1984 - 1992 Berkeley, CA 94710: Spdbooks.org 265 FURTHER DOCUMENTS 1986 - 1992 This book was made possible in part by the supporters of Kenning Editions: Charles Bernstein, Terry Cuddy, Kristen Gallagher, Rob 275 AFTERWORD Halpern, Brenda Iijima, Jill Magi, Dee Morris, Barbara Troolin, Tom Troolin, Tyrone Williams and Zhengfan Yang, 276 NOTES Kenning Editions is a 501c3 non-proft, independent literary 296 INDEX publisher investigating the relationships of aesthetic quality to political commitment. Consider donating or subscribing: 298 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kenningeditions.com/shop/donation Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 6-7 11/14/19 8:39 AM FOR DAGMAR SCHULTZ AND IKA HÜGEL-MARSHAL, CONTENTS THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING ME INTO YOUR HOME. FOR MY MOTHER, 9 PREFACE IN DEEP RESPECT FOR YOUR SURVIVAL. 13 LETTER FROM DAGMAR SCHULTZ Published by Kenning Editions in spring, 2020. Library of Congress Control Number:2019944569 19 BLACK WOMEN’S POETRY SEMINAR Cover design by Faride Mereb /Interior composition by Patrick 75 THE POET AS OUTSIDER Durgin and set in ITC OFFICINA SANS by Erik Spiekerman, Minion Pro by Robert Slimbach, and Miller Text by Matthew Carter. 117 INTERVIEWS 1984 - 1989 Distributed by Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh Street, 165 READINGS 1984 - 1992 Berkeley, CA 94710: Spdbooks.org 265 FURTHER DOCUMENTS 1986 - 1992 This book was made possible in part by the supporters of Kenning Editions: Charles Bernstein, Terry Cuddy, Kristen Gallagher, Rob 275 AFTERWORD Halpern, Brenda Iijima, Jill Magi, Dee Morris, Barbara Troolin, Tom Troolin, Tyrone Williams and Zhengfan Yang, 276 NOTES Kenning Editions is a 501c3 non-proft, independent literary 296 INDEX publisher investigating the relationships of aesthetic quality to political commitment. Consider donating or subscribing: 298 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kenningeditions.com/shop/donation Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 6-7 11/14/19 8:39 AM This work, and our collaboration, I call archival activism! Thank you Mayra! Dr. Dagmar Schultz October 19, 2019 St. Croix, U.S Virgin Islands Audre Lorde reading in East Berlin afer the fall of Te Berlin Wall (Frannzclub, 1990). Te recent political transformation and spirit of a newly re-united Germany infused itself into this reading. Te audience was eager to discuss her poem “East Berlin 1989” afer the event. Photograph by Dagmar Schultz. 10 PREFACE Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 10-11 11/14/19 8:39 AM Die Tageszeitung (TAZ) Germany July 12, 1984 Interview conducted by Dagmar Schultz DS: What has poetry meant in your life, and what can it ofer to others who aren’t poets themselves? AL: Poetry has been my way of taking the world and using it to make something functional for me and hopefully others. It has been a weapon in my life as well as a way of illuminating the world INTERVIEWS 1984 - 1989 and my experience of it. I think poetry is the skeletal architecture of our lives, it allows us to formulate visions of the future which are essential to us. It must be within our poetry and dreams that we begin to formulate the shape of a future that has not yet been. I believe poetry is a way of evaluating one’s existence in order to use it to bring about change. This is the function of any art, in particular poetry. I am teaching a course in Creative Writing at the Free University in Berlin. What I hope to do is not so much leave a group of mistress poets behind, although it would be very good if perhaps this could happen, I am more interested in leaving a group of women who are asking certain questions about their lives; women who are committed to taking a positive position on living consciously and are able to use the strength that comes from that kind of scrutiny. DS: How would you describe self-conscious living and vision in terms of your life and work? AS: I talk about a future that would allow each of us, our children and their children, to examine our identities and use all parts of ourselves fully. I speak of a future where each of us will be able to ask the most important questions of ourselves and examine how we go about answering them. I work for a future where the kinds of distortions that oppress me and the people I love will be lessened; oppressions of racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, elitism—the 117 Lorde_Dream-draft.indd 116-117 11/14/19 8:39 AM forms of dehumanization that are built into the societies in which white women relate to white men as parts of their family and have we function. been ofered certain pretenses of power that do not exist for Black women. On the other hand, Black women have a certain freedom I also speak of a future that exists. We must be able to keep this in reference to white power structures because we know that we world going long enough so we may begin to ask these questions will never be taken into such constructs, we will never be granted and solve some of these problems. This planet is not assured for the status that has been promised to white women although they you or me, we must preserve the earth upon which we seek while won’t be granted said position either. There is also the relationship formulating questions and looking for answers. between Black women and Black men, we share a battle against racism that sometimes renders our diferences very difcult to deal DS: The process you describe requires forms of cooperation which with. are lacking now. You have been either at the center of confict or frequently marginalized. How do you personally deal with these We have certain problems as women, as Black women we have one divisions? way of dealing with them while white women might deal diferently. Our diferences become unavailable to us either as information or AL: I am a poet, I believe nothing is uninvolved. Nothing within our creative possibilities whenever we pretend that our relationships to lives is separate. The parts of myself that I call upon for my work white men, Black men, and each other are exactly the same. do not draw power separately, they are all intimately involved, they draw from each other and feed each other. I think this is true of DS: Our diferences are available to the powers that be. human beings as a group. I have found contradictory pieces within me and have learned to work with all of them, I fnd myself at my AL: Whatever power we have that we don’t use will become an most powerful whenever this happens. This must be true within instrument against us, the question of diferences is a perfect groups by extension. example. If we do not learn to use our diferences constructively they will continue to be used against us as causes for war. We must As I see it, it is a real problem learning to deal with diferences. We turn this around, not by eliminating diference or pretending it are never going to become each other but we have certain common doesn’t exist, but examining how it may be used and recognized.
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