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Author:

Golden (Poet), author.

Title:

A dead name that learned how to live / Golden.

Publisher:

Game Over Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

60 pages : illustrations (mostly color), portrait ; 23 cm

Subject:

2000-2099
Transgender people--Southern States--21st century--Poetry.--Poetry.
Biographical poetry, American.
Gender-nonconforming people's writings, American--21st century--Poetry.
Poets, Black--United States--21st century.
Families, Black--Virginia--21st century--Poetry.
Portrait photography--United States.
Belonging (Social psychology)--Poetry.
Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
Black people--Southern States--Social conditions--Poetry.
Gender-nonconforming people--Southern States--Social conditions--Poetry.
American poetry--21st century.
Gender-nonconforming people's writings, American.
African American sexual minorities--Poetry.
African American transgender people--Poetry.
Gender-nonconforming people's writings, American
African American transgender people
African American sexual minorities
American poetry
Queer poetry.
Biographical poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9798985820713

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1374872359

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)