{"product_id":"funeral-diva","title":"Funeral Diva","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e recommends Barack Obama and Pamela Sneed's memoirs \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance. . . . Its strength is in its abundance, its desire for language to stir body as well as mind.\u003cstrong\u003e--Parul Sehgal, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre.\u003cstrong\u003e--Hilton Als\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis notable achievement, traveling from youth to adulthood, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist's life.--\u003cstrong\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCitizen: An American Lyric\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's an eerie sense of timeliness to this book, which features prose and poetry by the writer and teacher Pamela Sneed and is largely -- though not entirely -- about mourning Black gay men killed too soon by a deadly virus.--\u003cstrong\u003eTomi Obaro, \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOH MY GOODNESS, it was amazing. I was in tears by the end. What starts off as beautiful memoir evolves into incredibly moving poetry, painful and sweet and lovely.\u003cstrong\u003e--Marie Cloutier, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalancing and mixing, with rhyme and reason, love and anger, good and bad, memory and the created present, all to tell the story of a life, a memoir unrestrained, devoid of artificial forms. Honest. Free.--\u003cstrong\u003eAnjanette Delgado, \u003cem\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears--like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde--whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e confronts today's most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed's reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiveting, personal, open-hear\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326119264356,"sku":"9780872868113","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/funeral-diva","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}