RaveThe Guardian (UK)Moving beyond an attempt at straightforwardly reconstructing events in her life, Gumbs disintegrates, rearranges and examines all the matter that created Lorde, enabling her to unearth the many layers of feeling evoked by her lesser known poetry ... Her writing mimics the tempo of the breathwork she practices, with some passages written like long, slow inhalations, with the turn of a page prompting an an exhale. Ultimately, she shows us the kind of complex and radiant scholarship that emerges when scholars dig deeper, refusing to treat the life and work of Black feminist figures as self-evident.
