{"product_id":"be-not-afraid-of-my-body-a-lyrical-memoir-paperback","title":"Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarius Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's \"dazzlingly propulsive\" memoir of growing up Black and gay in Knoxville, Tennessee (Kaveh Akbar, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMartyr!\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--and eventually in Texas and Iowa, where he studies to become a poet--he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, predatory stalkers, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. Through a mix of straightforward memoir, brilliantly surreal reveries, and moments of startling imagery and insight, Stewart's explorations of love, illness, chemical dependency, desire, family, joy, shame, loneliness, and beauty coalesce into a wrenching, musical whole. \u003ci\u003eBe Not Afraid of My Body\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of our own experience and transform them into a story that does justice to all the multitudes we contain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A memorable portrait of Black gay life, from poverty and adversity to accomplishment and poetry.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A mammoth creation . . . Just unbelievably rich art right here.\" --Kiese Laymon, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarius Stewart\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and writer from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eIntimacies in Borrowed Light\u003c\/em\u003e (EastOver Press 2022). His poems and creative nonfiction have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eArkansas International\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalamander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. He holds MFAs from the Michener Center for Writers and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. Currently, he is a Lulu Johnson Doctoral Fellow in Literary Studies at the University of Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47777140146429,"sku":"9781953368904","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/huLf8GiHJC9781953368904.webp?v=1782989536","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/be-not-afraid-of-my-body-a-lyrical-memoir-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}