"An honest lyric, a mighty harpoon straight from the heart, Golden's A Dead Name That Learned How To Live weaves poems, family photographs, & self-portraits to share a journey of survivial & living in the American South. Releasing on their parent's 30th wedding anniversary as a dedicated love letter & living archive, this debut is an awe & ode towards southern Virginia & Eastern Shore Maryland, Black family pasts, presents, and futures, to Black queer beginnings & belongings outside and within the family home." -- Page 4 of cover. "An honest lyric, a mighty harpoon straight from the heart, Golden's debut collection, A DEAD NAME THAT LEARNED HOW TO LIVE weaves poems, family photographs, & self-portraits to share a journey of survival & living in the American south. Exploring themes of loss & legacy, nation & love language, forgiveness & fortitude, Blackness & being, Golden continually asks--What shifts within & around us when we choose to name ourselves & our kin here--our tragedy & triumphs, our human failures & feelings, our desires to be free? Releasing on their parent's 30th wedding anniversary (August 29th, 2022) as a dedicated love letter & living archive, this debut is an awe & ode towards southern Virginia & Eastern Shore Maryland, Black family pasts, presents, & futures, to Black queer beginnings & belongings outside and within the family home."--Amazon.com.
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