Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde - Hardcoverby Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Author) "[A] scintillating tour de force . . . in a free ranging style as distinctive as its subject . . . Forgoing the strictures and linearity of traditional biography, Gumbs enlivens her narrative with unconventional flourishes that in lesser hands might feel like a gimmick but here come across as revelation . . . Gumbs is a master stylist with a knack for writing sentences at once direct and expansive ("The scale of the