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AUTHOR: H. Sharif Williams
PUBLISHER: CCSS Publications
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: August 12, 2022
PAGES: 84
ISBN: 9798986260600
Race. Resistance. Love.
by H. Sharif Williams
Race. Resistance. Love. is a collection of poetry and spoken word expressing 30+ years of living, loving, and learning in the Black liberation movement, Black queer communities, and Black radical tradition. Presented through the themes of race, resistance, and love, this body of work challenges simplistic ideas about what these three words mean while calling readers to define and redefine them in their own lives.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author and poet H. Sharif Williams identifies as bisexual.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Welcome
RACE - Ezekiel 37
- The Noose
- Cosmos Inspired
- Do You Remember?
- Lessons I Learned by 4th Grade: Beatitudes
- The Day They Put Beyoncé to Rest
- I Am
- Untitled
RESISTANCE - To Live
- Ode to My Lover
- On the Inside
- Dixie. Is We Somebody?
- The Kiss
- Add a Dash of Rage
- Photograph
- Sex without Ceremony
- Fucked
LOVE - Ma
- Moved
- Choosing
- Can A Love
- Hostile Mama
- Standing There Looking Good
- Bitch’s Brew
- Bigg Mike
- I Found Love on My Way to Joy
- Herkhuti’s Bio