I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic Filled with rage and tenderness; Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children; female strength and vulnerability; renewal and revenge; goddesses and warriors; ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity; told with incantatory power. 'Audre Lorde writes as a black woman; a mother; a daughter; a lesbian; a feminist; a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing; nightmare and lucidity ... which blaze and pulse on the page' Adrienne Rich