War diaries / Tisa Bryant & Ernest Hardy, editors.
- Date:
- [2010]
- Books
About this work
Description
"[A] diverse range of poems, short stories and personal essays that lay bear the brutality of social oppression while tapping the resilience and beauty inherent among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) people of the African diaspora. War diaries is a complicated syncopation of voice, pain, and triumph that is the story of AIDS"--Page ix.
Publication/Creation
Los Angeles, CA : AIDS Project Los Angeles ; Oakland, CA : Global Forum on MSM and HIV, [2010]
Physical description
xvi, 90 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contributors
Contents
Foreword / George Ayala and Vallerie Wagner -- Introduction / Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy -- Staring at myself / Stevan F. Gaskill -- Dream of my cousin's wedding / Reginald Harris -- Upon hearing Leontyne Price on the United Negro College Fund commercial / Kevin Simmonds -- To the mother of my openly gay high school student: / Anton Nimblett -- Until the father ; Eulogy ; Basketball / Kevin Simmonds -- Diary in a dissertation / Rinaldo V. Wilson -- Shotgun / Reginald Harris -- War diaries (loose leaf) / Deborah Richards -- Why I needed you: Max Robinson (1939-1988) / MR Daniel -- Delroy an Glen in Tautie' Mout / Rosamond S. King -- In the life on the down low: where's a black gay man to go? / Keith M. Harris -- My penis / André St. Clair Thompson -- Herman Finley is dead (1947-2005) ; Pause ; To be seen / Jericho Brown -- pwa 3 or to live with n speak out / avery r. young -- Pop guns / Derek Jackson -- Not a condom in sight / G. Winston James -- why me n rick cant juice no mo ; a sxsw haijy fo a bass player ; haijy for a high maintenance lover / avery r. young -- You be the man / Rosamond S. King -- Pox / G. Winston James -- Cold and west, tired you bet / Ernest Hardy -- Sonnet for Derrick Rojas, Maryland Leather Boy 2008 ; Untitled love song #12 ; Cuerpo de hombre / Reginald Harris -- Cheese and crackers / Ernest Hardy -- Getting strong / Samiya Bashir -- Addendum.
Notes
Copy 1. Purchased from Gerard Koskovich, May 2015.
Languages
Subjects
- AIDS (Disease)Literary collections
- HIV infectionsLiterary collections
- Oppression (Psychology)Literary collections
- African American gay peopleLiterary collections
- African American lesbiansLiterary collections
- African American bisexual peopleLiterary collections
- Transgender peopleLiterary collections
- American literature20th century
- HIV Seropositivity
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- HIV Infections
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesM22261
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 0984126805
- 9780984126804