![]() ![]() ![]() “Somewhere in that poem would be a line or a feeling I would be sharing. She memorized poems as a child, and when asked a question, she’d often respond with one of them. Lorde once spoke in poetry-literally.īefore Lorde even started writing poetry, she was already using it to express herself. ![]() Shortly before Lorde's death in 1992, she adopted another moniker in an African naming ceremony: Gambda Adisa, for “Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known.” 3. Carriacou is a small Grenadine island where her mother was born. The title Zami, “a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers,” paid homage to the “bridge and field of women” that made up Lorde’s life. It wasn’t the only time Lorde chose a name for herself. She included the Y to abide by her mother, but eventually dropped it when she got older. “I used to love the evenness of AUDRELORDE,” she explained. When Lorde learned to write her name at 4 years old, she had a tendency to forget the Y in Audrey, in part because she “did not like the tail of the Y hanging down below the line,” as she wrote in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. ![]()
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