The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House

Most of the essays in this small selection were first given as papers at conferences across the US between 1978 and 1982.
'Poetry Is Not a Luxury' was first published in Chrysalis: A Magazine of Female Culture (1977).

From the self-described 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.

Penguin Modern: 23

Contents:
Poetry Is Not a Luxury
Uses of the Erotic
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle
the Master's House
Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
Learning from the 1960s