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1) Gutted
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English
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"Within the Japanese poetic form of the zuihitsu, Chin reflects on experiences of grief, loss, comfort and illness, and resolve"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved...
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English
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Marked by maturity and poetic vision, this collection of poetry if devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic. This collection explores the meanings and boundaries of illness, travel, contagion, home, identify, tainted purity, and the bits of life that contain and hold them together in spite of the harsh exigency of daily existence. -- From back cover.
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English
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As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. Whitman never published the cycle. Instead he cut them up, rearranged them, and hid them in...
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Yale series of younger poets volume 106
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Salt Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, these poems confront a legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal, and resist ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender communities. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home.
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TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Leontyne Price as an icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot-and himself as a fan, a budding singer, and a gay man-through passages that move polyphonically through Black identity, Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history"--
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University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Darrel Alejandro Holnes's first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. This Central American love song is in constant motion as it takes us on a lyrical and sometimes narrative journey from Pan©¿m to the USA and beyond. The driving force behind Holnes's work is a pursuit for a new home, and as he searches, he takes the reader on a wild ride through the most pressing political issues...