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Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir

Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir

Stewart, Darius

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Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1953368905
ISBN13: 9781953368904
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
A poet's dazzlingly propulsive memoir of growing up Black and gay in Knoxville, Tennessee (Kaveh Akbar, New York Times-bestselling author of Martyr!).

Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee--and eventually in Texas and Iowa, where he studies to become a poet--he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, predatory stalkers, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. Through a mix of straightforward memoir, brilliantly surreal reveries, and moments of startling imagery and insight, Stewart's explorations of love, illness, chemical dependency, desire, family, joy, shame, loneliness, and beauty coalesce into a wrenching, musical whole. Be Not Afraid of My Body stands as a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of our own experience and transform them into a story that does justice to all the multitudes we contain.

A memorable portrait of Black gay life, from poverty and adversity to accomplishment and poetry. --Kirkus Reviews

A mammoth creation . . . Just unbelievably rich art right here. --Kiese Laymon, New York Times-bestselling author of Heavy

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