Using the black unicorn as the title for her book linked it with many different things: loneliness, power, strength, freedom, passion, being black in a predominantly white world, and possibly anger. An extraordinary poet, she deserved the strength of unicorns to go against the world she faced, and it seems she had it! Share to Tumblr. Product details File Size: 323 KB Print Length: 122 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton &am . Black unicorn. Poems Her collection The Black Unicorn remains my torch and inspiration to be and become more. The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." The black unicorn is impatient. In the collection she turned from the urban themes of her early work, looking instead to Africa, and wrote on her role as mother and daughter, using rich imagery and mythology. ― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems. Profile and poems at the Poetry Foundation; Profile A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country’s most influential poets. Yes, my voice matters, my survival matters, and I have a right to define and redefine myself. Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77). As Clarke observes, “there are muted references to a horrific past” in the poem − “perhaps the Atlantic slave trade, perhaps other kinds of coerced relations” (134). The black unicorn : poems Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The black unicorn is restless the black unicorn is unrelenting the black unicorn is not free. black history month. Contact / Locate; What We Do; Adopting.