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3) Only pieces
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Edgar wants nothing more than to live his life out loud. But telling the truth about his sexuality isn’t so easy in his traditional Mexican-American family, and his Amá has made it clear she won’t accept who he is. Things get even harder when Edgar’s macho father returns home after months away, and the house erupts into fighting and simmering tension. Edgar worries what would happen if he told his father the truth about who he is, and feels...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
The anthology includes Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog, in which the poet describes looking after a friend ill with aids: "I go / around the house with a rag of ammonia / wiping, wiping crazed as a housewife on Let's / Make a Deal, the deal being PLEASE DON'T MAKE / HIM SICK AGAIN." By the author of The Carpenter at the Asylum.
15) The hard way
Author
Pub. Date
©1995
Description
The first collection of renowned gay writer Michael Lassell's poetry, fiction and essays. Widely anthologized and a staple of gay literary and entertainment publications nationwide, Lassell is regarded as one of the most distinctive and accomplished talents of his generation. As much a chronicle of post-Stonewall gay life as a compendium of a remarkable writer's work, The Hard Way is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the state of contemporary...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braiding English and Spanish, Corral's poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. He employs a range of forms and phrasing, bringing the vivid particulars...
Pub. Date
©1988
Description
This collection presents the best gay and lesbian poetry written from 1950 to the present, with some 200 poems by 94 writers. Cutting across class, gender, and color lines like nothing else in American literature, this anthology offers a thoroughly refreshed report and exploration of our deepest social, sexual, political, and spiritual realities. With contributions from the well-known -- James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Frank O'Hara, Audre...
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