Fingernails Across the Chalkboard
Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
By Randall Horton (Editor); M. L. Hunter (Editor); Becky Thompson (Editor)
(Third World Press, Paperback, 9780883782743, 182pp.)
Publication Date: April 2007
Categories: American - African American, Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Description
Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate life and the living by humanizing the effects of HIV and giving powerful voices to the affected and afflicted. The writings, presented in four major sections, speak out about the hard-hitting truths that surround HIV; the forms of abuse, such as incest and rape, which cast HIV into the lives of girls and women; the issues of grief and loss; and the range of reactions, from acceptance to denial, activism, and the search for justice. The writers featured include Dennis Brutus, Tony Medina, Randi Triant, Truth Thomas, Duriel Harris, Frank X. Walker, Arisa White, Tara Betts, and Lamont B. Steptoe.
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