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October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard
- Title
- October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Lesléa Newman.
- Author
- Newman, Lesléa
- Publication
- Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
- ©2012
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Candlewick Press, publisher.
- Description
- xi, 111 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
- A poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world, toldt hrough a cycle of 68 poems.
- Alternative Title
- October morning : a song for Matthew Shepard
- Song for Matthew Shepard
- Subjects
- Murder
- Gays > Crimes against
- Wyoming > Laramie
- Novels in verse
- Murder > Fiction
- Shepard, Matthew, 1976-1998 > Fiction
- JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Issues > Homosexuality
- Gays > Crimes against > Fiction
- Fiction
- Hate crimes > Fiction
- JUVENILE NONFICTION > Law & Crime
- JUVENILE NONFICTION > Poetry > General
- Juvenile works
- Laramie (Wyo.) > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Novels in verse.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards (note)
- Stonewall Book Awards (Honor Book in Children's & Young Adult Literature), 2013
- Contents
- Introduction -- Prologue: The fence (before). -- Part one: Outnnumbered -- Recipe for disaster -- Something snapped -- Raising awareness -- Every mother's plea -- The truck -- Road rage -- A sorry state -- Signs of trouble -- The clothesline -- The pistol -- Witness -- The fence (that night) -- What you can do in eighteen hours -- Stars -- The wind -- The does -- Where is my boy? -- The biker -- The patrol officer's report -- The doctor -- Housekeeper, ICU -- Lame excuse -- How to have the worst day of your life -- The journalist -- Vigil : candles in the wind -- The armbands -- Scared to death -- Heartfelt apology -- October 12, 1998 -- Tree -- Class photo : me in the middle, or, "What will you be when you grow up?" -- Then and now -- Thirteen ways of looking at Matthew.
- Part two: The fence (one week later) -- Stand by your man -- Accessory -- Officer of the court -- His shoes -- The frat boys -- The songwriter -- The drag queen -- The cop -- The bartender -- Let's say -- The student -- A father -- A mother -- A chorus of parents -- The church lady -- A protestor -- An angel -- Jury selection -- The prosecutor's job -- The defense's job -- Don't flatter yourself -- Sorry boy -- Logic problem -- Verdict -- Mercy -- What twenty bucks could get you in 1998 -- Wounded -- This is the hand -- Once upon a time -- The fence (after). -- Epilogue: Pilgrimage. -- Afterword: Imagine. -- Notes -- Explanation of poetic forms -- Resources.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-4510
- ISBN
- 9780763658076
- 0763658073
- LCCN
- 2011048358
- 9780763658076
- OCLC
- 774490636
- Author
- Newman, Lesléa, author.
- Title
- October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Lesléa Newman.
- Publisher
- Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards
- Stonewall Book Awards (Honor Book in Children's & Young Adult Literature), 2013
- Added Author
- Candlewick Press, publisher.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780763658076
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-4510