A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "Hanging Fire"
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Hanging Fire
Audre Lorde
1978
Introduction
Hanging Fire,
a poem about teenage angst by Audre Lorde, first appeared in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn in 1978. The poem has been reprinted in several literary anthologies, such as the Norton Introduction to Literature (9th edition, 2005) and the 1997 edition of The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.
In Conversations with Audre Lorde (2004) Joan Hall reports that Lorde was a self-described Black lesbian feminist poet warrior mother
who liked to focus on differences
while disputing notions of universality, and the book in which Hanging Fire
first appeared is noted for its evocation of African spirituality. Yet Hanging Fire
is not overtly about the African American experience, and its one apparent reference to romance seems to be heterosexual. It is true that there is a feminist suggestion in the poem's closing stanza, but for the most part the poem speaks in a broad way to the anguish and anxiety of adolescent life generally; some readers even mistake the speaker for male.
The poem coincides with Lorde's usual concerns in its depiction of the speaker as a lonely, unhappy outsider and in its suggestion of a difficult mother-daughter relationship. However, its evocation of the adolescent condition has a universal quality not usually associated with Lorde, though it is this quality that no doubt accounts for the poem's inclusion in anthologies and classroom