An exhilarating account of the feminist and civil rights pioneer Audre Lorde and what she can teach us about navigating today’s fraught politics, from poet and activist Gumbs ― Guardian - 2024 Books to Watch
In addition to being one of our greatest living poets, Gumbs is perhaps our most knowledgeable expert on Audre Lorde’s life and work ― Lit Hub - Most Anticipated Books of 2024
Only Alexis Pauline Gumbs could have written Audre Lorde’s life story in seven dimensions. She is Lorde’s spiritual daughter, and Survival Is a Promise is no mere biography - it is a communion, an ancestral divination, a long, intimate walk in which history, poetry, politics and wisdom are passed to a new generation – Robin D. G. Kelley ― author of Freedom of Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ critically acclaimed biography of Audre Lorde has been hailed as a masterpiece that immerses readers into the fullness of Lorde’s work, surfacing her “deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology…For [Lorde], ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands.”
From 22-23 November, in partnership with The Box and The Green Table, Radical Ecology will welcome Alexis Pauline Gumbs back to Devon for a series of events aimed at creating opportunities for collective learning from the wisdom of Audre Lorde’s writing and building community in a spirit of liberation and joy.