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A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre.--Hilton AlsPamela Sneeds Funeral Diva charts the grieving patterns informing a life with unflinching honesty and clarity. This notable achievement, traveling from youth to adulthood, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artists life.--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American LyricIn 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. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneeds 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.Offering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ rights, Funeral Diva confronts todays most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneeds reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities.Riveting, personal, open-hearted, risky and wise. This is Pamela Sneed at the top of her gifts, firmly grounding her history into our history, enriching both, acknowledging all the legacies and losses, influences gold and ash.--Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse . . . a tour de force about the collision between a coalescing 1980s Black lesbian and gay literary and poetic movement in New York and the onslaught of AIDS.--Donna Seaman, BooklistPamela Sneeds Funeral Diva is deft, defiant, and devastating. Nothing exists in her work without history, without teaching me, as she writes, the power of what words can do. Through her brilliant mind its evident that everything is truly connected. You just have to find the string.--Tommy Pico, author of FeedFuneral Diva is urgent and necessary reading to live by. This is writing at its finest. Sneed poetically processes individuation, lifes journey of becoming, a visionary elegy that transforms trauma and abandonment to recognition and virtuosity. Keep this book close to your heart and soul.--Karen Finley, author of Shock TreatmentReminiscent of Audre Lordes Zami, Pamela Sneeds memoir is, in itself, a healing balm, affirming in its truths and honesty. I cannot remember ever reading a book that illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on our community more poignantly than Funeral Diva.--Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PatsyPamela Sneed takes enormous risks in this book. She tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose.--Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of CarolinaIn Sneeds distinctive style of prophetic foreshadowing, Funeral Diva is the tome for our awakening and for our survival.--Erica Cardwell, writer, critic, and educatorAbout author(s):Poet, professor, and performer, Pamela Sneed is the author of Sweet Dreams, Kong, and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery. She was a Visiting Critic at Yale, a Visiting Professor at Columbia Universitys School of the Arts, and is online faculty at Chicagos School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Nikki Giovannis, The 100 Best African American Poems.She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project, NYU and Pratt Universities, Smack Mellon Gallery, The High Line, Performa, Danspace, The Bessies, Performance Space, Joes Pub, The Public Theater, SMFA, and BRIC. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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