In "Poetry is Not a Luxury," Lorde unpacks the view that poetry, along with emotion and instinct, is inferior to and opposed to rationality. Ultimately, Lorde remains ambivalent on the issue of whether life is better in the capitalist U.S. She compares the cities she encounters to ones she already knows, in particular New York City and Accra, Ghana. In a series of sketches, Lorde describes the landscapes and people of Moscow and Uzbekistan. The first, "Notes From a Trip To Russia," is compiled from notes Lorde took during a trip to the U.S.S.R. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speechesis comprised of fifteen individual sections, each of them in the form of an essay, speech, or letter.
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