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. By unification, Lorde writes that women can reverse the oppression that they face and create better communities for themselves and loved ones. A READING IN THE POETRY OF THE AFRO-GERMAN MAY AYIM FROM DUAL INHERITANCE THEORY PERSPECTIVE: THE IMPACT OF AUDRE LORDE ON MAY AYIM. Some Afro-German women, such as Ika Hgel-Marshall, had never met another black person and the meetings offered opportunities to express thoughts and feelings. In 1966, Lorde became head librarian at Town School Library in New York City, where she remained until 1968. Miriam Kraft summarized Lorde's position when reflecting on the interview; "Yes, we have different historical, social, and cultural backgrounds, different sexual orientations; different aspirations and visions; different skin colors and ages. Audre Lorde, a black feminist writer who became the poet laureate of New York State in 1991, died on Tuesday at her home on St. Croix. She led workshops with her young, black undergraduate students, many of whom were eager to discuss the civil rights issues of that time. Throughout Lorde's career she included the idea of a collective identity in many of her poems and books. They visited Cuban poets Nancy Morejon and Nicolas Guillen. Her book of poems, Cables to Rage, came out of her time and experiences at Tougaloo. New fields like African American studies and womens studies broadened the topics scholars were addressing and brought attention to groups that previously had been rarely discussed. Audre published her first poetry volume in 1968. It meant being doubly invisible as a Black feminist woman and it meant being triply invisible as a Black lesbian and feminist". While still a college student, her first poem was published in Seventeen magazine. While writers like Amiri Baraka and Ishmael Reed utilized African cosmology in a way that "furnished a repertoire of bold male gods capable of forging and defending an aboriginal Black universe," in Lorde's writing "that warrior ethos is transferred to a female vanguard capable equally of force and fertility. Lorde actively strove for the change of culture within the feminist community by implementing womanist ideology.