Chosen Poems Old and New 
Revised Edition 
 
Audre Lorde. 
 
W.W. Norton: 1992. Advanced Review Copy. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Wrinkling on the back panel of the jacket. Flaps have a layer on fading across their tops. Slight shelf wear along the top of the jacket. 206 pages. Near fine, jacket very good.
 
This ARC includes the press release for the reviewer, and there are no other copies of this book on the market. Here Lorde focused on the formal elements of poems from her old catalogue, '50 to '79 and including classics like "Coal" and "Movement Song," and gave them overhauls so that they shone anew. Plus there is never-before-released poetry. We get to see how conscious choices of editing and revision were a key part of creating of a poetic identity and voice unique to American letters. 
 
"For every poem written, there is the bedrock of experience(s) within which the poem is anchored. A molten hot light shines up from the core of those experiences ... How to honor that light, do justice to the subtlety of its changing auras -- without shifting or fracturing the bedrock from which the poem arises -- that is the task of revision."