A memoir, a myth, a literary invention, Zami is the book in which Audre Lorde coined the term "biomythography" to describe a life that cannot be contained by autobiography alone.

Beginning with her childhood in Harlem as the daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Lorde traces her emergence as a writer, lesbian, Black woman and political thinker through family history, friendships, first loves and the communities that sustained her. Rather than constructing a linear life story, she allows memory, desire and imagination to overlap, revealing identity as something continually made and remade.

First published in 1982, Zami has become one of the foundational works of feminist, queer and Black literature. It occupies a singular place between poetry, memoir and theory, carrying the lyrical precision of Lorde's verse while articulating many of the ideas that would shape her later essays. Rich with sensuality, tenderness and intellectual force, it remains an essential work for readers of life writing, queer literature and anyone interested in how personal memory can become a form of cultural history.

Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition (2018). Very light shelf wear with a clean, unmarked interior and tight binding.