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Crossbones on my life / Mason J.
Van Pelt Library PS3610.A2416 C76 2021
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- J., Mason (Poet), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, CA : Nomadic Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Crossbones on My Life borrows its title from an invocation by Assotto Saint and honors the memory of snap queens, black lesbians, gay latinos, two-spirit natives, feral city youth, trans icons, and 'round the way girls. This debut chapbook from Mason J. chronicles their first-hand experiences with the HIV pandemic, brown girlhood, and sexuality, urban development/gay meccas, queercore cruising, leather daddies, Ghostship, gender identity, hood life, love, loss of a hometown, and more." -- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 San Francisco
- Western Addition Blues, 2015
- Helicopters in 'Hoods, 2016
- San Francisco As Grandmother, 2020
- The Fruit Man At Midtown, 2015
- Did You Know California Was Named After A Black Dyke? 2014
- In Sleep Nextto Black Bodies, 2019
- Ndn Summer, 2020
- Trauma Is A Somatic Rust Stain, 2014
- pt. 2 Lost And Found: Aids, Love, And Grief
- Dementia Pantoum (All Of My Uncles Are Dead), 2013
- Do You Remember The Aids War? 2019
- Puppy Love (Inspired By Justin Chin's "Zoo Animals"), 2015
- For Calloutqueen Aka Mark Aguhar, 2012
- Good Morning Gorgeous, For Sylvester 2020 (Post-Rona)
- pt. 3 Techie Becky And Start-Up Steve
- Workplace Bingo 2017
- Ways To Stay Sane Despite It All, 2016 (Election Season)
- The Reprogramming Of A City, 2018
- An Ode To Sfs Cracked A Concrete Smile, 2016
- What Makes A Garden Different From A Graveyard? 2013
- For Savvy Taggers With Aerosol Breath, 2016
- UNDERTOWS OF GRIEF (POST-GHOST SHIP FREEWRITES) 2016
- Dec 4Th
- Dec 6Th
- Dec 7Th
- A Lucid Dream, 2014
- On The Weight Of Being A Unicorn, 2014
- For Kameyo Ige 2017
- Mornings In Bed, 2014
- pt. 4 Gender Secessionism
- Invisible Ink + Divination, 2019
- Villanelle For The Violence Trans People Are Supposed To Accept 2018
- A Toast To Trans Fags Of All Genders, 2019
- Singing Again, 2019
- The Impossible Black Trans Fag Or 32-Some-Odd Ways To Become One Mason J. To Assotto Saint Reacting To "Women" By Nicanor Parra Responding To "Men" By Erica Fong, 2019
- Walking With Women Of Color Who Stare At Their Feet When They're Alone, 2014
- 96,000 To 47,000 / Clogged Gills, 2015
- pt. 5 Flowers For Snap Queens
- For Marlon Riggs, The Pomo Afrohomos, Ed Mock, Sylvester, And My Uncles, 2019
- Seeds In The Schoolyard, 2018
- The Best Time To Seed Fruit Is Late Augustto Late September, 2016
- pt. 6 Haikus 2010-2020
- pt. 7 This Is Your Mind On Corona
- Native Echolocation In The Time Of Corona
- The Best Protest Is Beauty
- I Will Heal-Prayers To The Wind
- E.R. Freewrites 1 & 2
- Relearning How To Read/Write After Corona #1.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781736396315
- 1736396315
- OCLC:
- 1247829364
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