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Funeral Diva by Pamela SneedIn 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. Sneeds poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebearslike James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lordewhose

there will be no more science fiction

unwinding our concept of identity and being through a strange

"September 1

Perform these plays in your mind's eye or take the dare and produce them on stage - they are transportative

and human barbarism

to the hushed landscapes of the afterlife

our Captain

At home with the narrative

It could have been for assault or petty larceny

calling to mind Gertrude Stein's imperative from Tender Buttons: "Act so that there is no use in a centre

Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant

author of The Line Becomes a RiverTrip