The Cancer Journals: Special Edition

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992.

"Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet."—Adrienne Rich

"This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me."—Alice Walker

• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
• The Normal Heart
• The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James (Graphic Medicine)
• Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
• The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
• Autobiography of a Face
• The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
• A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
• The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition