Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Gay Men's Poetry. Stonewall Book Award Finalist. "The poems collected in LAST RIGHTS portray caring, humanness, family or kinship, humor, despair, ordinary problems and unqualified love as they occur in the everyday lives of homosexuals. With the quiet dignity of these poems Marvin K. White challenges us to consider how homophobia may distort what we behold"—The Washington Post.

Last Rights

Literature & Fiction

White, Marvin K.

Poetry

RedBone Press

<p>Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Lambda Literary Award finalist. "In NOTHIN' UGLY FLY, Marvin K. White follows his celebrated last rights by charting the course from being a boy 'dangerous and unexpected' to being a man who becomes 'expected' through loving another man. The black bird that is his poetry emerges out of the relation between what is said and what is only hinted in the voice and music of his work. In his best poems, the self asserted is fiercely witty and soul-filled, and it embodies the whole flock of men he acknowledges, honors and celebrates. This is a book that lifts off and lifts up"—Forrest Hamer.</p>

Nothin' Ugly Fly

If We Have to Take Tomorrow

Roberts, Frank Leon

The Institute for Gay Men's Health

<p>Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. "Comprised of catalogs of dreams, questions, advice, recipes and observation, OUR NAME BE WITNESS describes the complicated communities that are the foundations of our neighborhoods, our aspirations, and our hearts. Raw and honest, Marvin K. White's third collection reminds us that 'every time you tell the truth, you become the truth.' In one of the most striking of this book's freewheeling prose poems, White claims, 'Writing is magic. Is a grounding thing. Connects floating stories to paper and earth.' Indeed"—Camille Dungy.</p>

Our Name Be Witness

Last Rights: Poems by Marvin White

United States

Alyson Books

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