Be not afraid of my body : a lyrical memoir / Darius Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Darius, author.

Contributor:

Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stewart, Darius.

African American gay men--Biography.

African American gay men.

African American men--Biography.

African American men.

Poets, American--Biography.

Poets, American.

HIV-positive men--Biography.

HIV-positive men.

Gay men--Identity.

Gay men.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lakewood, OH : Belt Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"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, Texas, and Iowa, he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. A mix of memoir, surreal reveries, and startling imagery, Be Not Afraid of My Body is a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of experience and transform them into a story that captures all the multitudes we contain" -- Back cover.

Notes:

Stonewall Book Award - Non-Fiction, Honor, 2025

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781953368904

1953368905

OCLC:

1419033946

Publisher Number:

99996274700