Research Catalog

Title

War diaries / Tisa Bryant & Ernest Hardy, editors.

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : AIDS Project Los Angeles ; Oakland, CA : Global Forum on MSM and HIV, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bryant, Tisa
• Hardy, Ernest

Description

xvi, 90 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"[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.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• AIDS (Disease) > Literary collections
• HIV infections > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century
• African American gay people > Literary collections
• Oppression (Psychology) > Literary collections
• African American lesbians > Literary collections
• African American bisexual people > Literary collections
• Transgender people > Literary collections
• HIV Seropositivity
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• HIV Infections

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Poems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780984126804 (pbk.)
• 0984126805 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 694850779
• SCSB-13520803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library