| Description |
148 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Summary |
"In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on black queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears- like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde-whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape. Offering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, Funeral Diva confronts the most pressing issues of our time with acerbic wit and audacity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. History -- 2. Ila -- 3. Funeral diva -- 4. Never again -- 5. Untitled -- 6. Ruth vick -- 7. There is me/there is my mother -- 8. Mysti -- 9. Sidewalk rage -- 10. You can't get out from under -- 11. Twizzlers -- 12. Parable of the sower -- 13. Parable of the sower 2 -- 14. Bey -- 15. Uprising -- 16. Post-election -- 17. Rope-a-dope -- 18. Silence = death -- 19. For donald woods -- 20. Hold tight -- 21. Survivor -- 22. Citizen -- 23. Circus acts -- 24. Black panther -- 25. Mask -- 26. Prophecy -- 27. Born frees -- 28. A new story -- 29. Marked safe -- 30. When the rainbow is enuf -- 31. A tale of two pandemics -- 32. I can't breathe. |
| Subject |
Sneed, Pamela -- Poetry.
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Autobiographical poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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Works. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780872868113 paperback : $16.95 |
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0872868117 paperback |
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