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Cancer Illness,” in Hall,
Conversations
, 137; Streitmatter interview with Clayton.
    32 . Streitmatter interview with Clayton.
    33 . Streitmatter telephone interview with Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, July 20, 2011.
    34 . De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 188–91, 223; Hall,
Conversations
, xxi; Schultz, “Audre Lorde,” 132.
    35 . Audre Lorde,
The Cancer Journals
(San Francisco: Spinsters Ink, 1980), 64–65.
    36 . Susan McHenry, “The Cancer Journals,”
Ms
., April 1981, 42.
    37 . Audre Lorde,
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
(Boston: Persephone Press, 1982).
    38 . Rosemary Daniel, “The Poet Who Found Her Own Way,”
New York Times
, December 19, 1982, BR12.
    39 .De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 279, 291.
    40 . Ibid., 301, 323, 356.
    41 . Streitmatter interview with Cook and Coss.
    42 . Homan, “Audre Lorde,” 733.
    43 . Audre Lorde,
Sister Outsider
(Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984), 124–33.
    44 . Lorde,
Sister Outsider
, 125–26.
    45 . Ibid., 128, 130.
    46 . Thulani Davis and Cheryl Everette, “Books,”
Essence
, August 1984, 48; Kate Walter, “Outside In,”
Village Voice
, September 4, 1984, 52.
    47 . Cook and Coss, “Audre Lorde,” 394.
    48 . Ibid., 395; De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 80.
    49 . Cook and Coss, “Audre Lorde,” 395; Audre Lorde,
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
(New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1985.
    50 . Cook and Coss, “Audre Lorde,” 395; Matthew Rothschild, “Adrienne Rich: ‘I happen to think poetry makes a huge difference,’”
Progressive
, January 1994.
    51 . De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 337–38.
    52 . Streitmatter interview with Cook and Coss.
    53 . Cook and Coss, “Audre Lorde,” 395; De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 242, 279.
    54 . Cook and Coss, “Audre Lorde,” 395; Alexis De Veaux, “Just Between Us,”
Village Voice Literary Supplement
, April 1993, 14; De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 322, 338; Hall,
Conversations
, xxiii.
    55 . De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 352.
    56 . Ibid., 355; Lorde journal entry, December 20, 1985, Audre Lorde Papers.
    57 . Lorde journal entry, January 3, 1986, Audre Lorde Papers; De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 358.
    58 . Alexis De Veaux, “Searching for Audre Lorde,”
Callaloo
23, no. 1 (2000): 66.
    59 . De Veaux, “Searching,” 66; De Veaux,
Warrior Poet
, 361.
    60 . Hall,
Conversations
, xxv; Audre Lorde,
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1986);
A Burst of Light: Essays
(Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988);
Undersong: Chosen Poems, Old and New
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1992);
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987–1992
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1993).
    61 . “Audre Lorde, 58,”
Boston Globe
, November 19, 1992, 57; “Audre Lorde, 58, A Poet, Memoirist and Lecturer Dies,”
New York Times
, November 20, 1992, A23; “Audre Lorde; Feminist Poet Who Wrote of Discrimination,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 19, 1992, A30. See also “Audre Lorde, New York’s Feminist Poet Laureate,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 19, 1992, C20; “Audre Lorde, Poet,”
Washington Post
, November 19, 1992, C4.
    62 . Nadine Brozan, “Chronicle,”
New York Times
, January 13, 1993, B4.
    63 . Barbara Christian,
New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985–2000
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 164; Homan, “Audre Lorde,” 733.
    64 . Streitmatter interview with Clayton.

PHOTOGRAPHY/ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
    Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865; courtesy of the Library of Congress.
    Martha Carey Thomas and Mamie Gwinn, 1879; courtesy of Bryn Mawr College Archives.
    Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, 1895; photo by Edward Reeves, courtesy of Edward Reeves Photographer, printed with permission.
    Mary Rozet Smith and Jane Addams, 1896; courtesy of the Jane Addams Collection, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
    Bessie Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, from
My Crystal Ball
,