October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
by:
Lesléa Newman (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781469206363 (1469206366)
Publish date: September 25th 2012
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
This is a beautiful, haunting tribute to Matthew Shepherd told in a bevy of imagined voices, some of which are spun off quotes from people connected to the murder in some way, from the murderers to the investigating officers to the person who found Matthew's body. While it's tempting to find voices ...
bookshelves: poetry, summer-2014, glbt, published-2012 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: B&B (do it for the crumpets) Read from June 26 to 27, 2014 http://www.audiobooksync.com/free-syn...By Lesléa NewmanRead by Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tom Parks, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, & Christina TraisterPubl...
I won't say much about this book because it's fairly short and I feel it's one of those books you should read for yourself. Basically, it's a collection of poems Lesléa Newman wrote for Matthew Shepard, a boy who was beaten, robbed, and tied to a fence for being homosexual. A lot of the poems are re...
Hard book to rate - review to follow
A profoundly moving meditation. Pair this one with Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till.
10 years ago
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