Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and ...Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity.