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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. Sn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sneed, Pamela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2020]
Subjects:
Sneed, Pamela > Poetry.
Autobiographical poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.