Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir / Darius Stewart

Author: Stewart, Darius, author.

Physical Description:262 pages ; 18 cm

Note:Paperback

Note:Quality or Trade Paperback

Note:Biography / Autobiography

Note:LGBTQ+

Note:Memoirs

Note:African American & Black

Note: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.

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