Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised) (Revised) Political Process up to present-day conversations about

up to present-day conversations about MeToo

It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age

examining what lies beneath the surface

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems

but also what they are thinking and feeling

Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised) (Revised) Political Process up to present-day conversations about"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950 1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process." Adrienne Rich