Fingernails across the chalkboard : poetry and prose on HIV/AIDS from the black diaspora / edited by Randall Horton, M.L. Hunter, Becky Thompson ; with a foreword by Haki R. Madhubuti.
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Chicago :
Third World Press,
[2007]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Stop walking for a minute, hear me
- HIV/AIDS / Dennis Brutus
- We real crunk / Frank X. Walker
- My dead / Arisa White
- - Autobiography aid / Deborah Poe
- Results / Tara Betts
- Guatemalan postscript / Ruth O'Callaghan
- Thembi's song / Tony Medina
- Confronting my mortality / Gerald Ribeiro
- You made me come home / Dike Okoro
- Normal / Avery R. Young
- Don't ask, just know / Tara Betts
- The memorial / Randi Triant
- Your mother's questions / Reginald Dwayne Betts
- A little magic and a lot of faith / Patricia Eldridge
- Section 2. So young pretty
- Believe them when they say / Arisa White
- A question of survival / Evie Shockley
- Tiger claw / Melanie Rivera
- Code of honor / James E. Cherry
- Some days other than Sunday / Nancy Jackson
- Isolation / Fred Joiner
- Gravity / Duriel Harris
- Ugo's fear / Tony Medina
- Test results / Dante Micheaux
- The down low / Curtis L. Crisler
- Saving African women and children one movie at a time : truth masquerades as fiction / Terry M. Dugan
- Section 3. Pulsing somewhere distant
- Scope / Alan King
- Excerpt from Effluvium / Arisa White
- Visiting hours are over / Truth Thomas
- Tari / Dike Okoro
- Grenades / Myronn Hardy
- Laughter lost in the hills / Ifeanyi Ajaegbo
- AIDS elegy (1981-2006) / Becky Thompson
- This man (and his hound) / Joop Bersee
- HIV needs assessment / Roy Jacobstein
- The storm's eye / Ebony Golden
- To the young warriors / Chanell Harris
- Tallies and tolls / Melanie Henderson
- The rose and the hummingbird / Diane Harriford
- For Robby / Anna Forbes
- Section 4. We, the meeting of twin edges, the same blood
- Who decided / Lamont B. Steptoe
- A river in Africa / Truth Thomas
- The vilification of Peter Mwai : a story of fear and racism / L.E. Scott
- Terrorist / Alan King
- Timothy / Beth Snyder
- Conditional coming / M.L. Hunter
- Willie / Kimberly A. Collins
- Rose city thorns / Yesod-Fredrick Douglas Knowles
- Satyr, wounded / Stephen Mead
- Touch / Fred Joiner
- Lamar / Avery R. Young
- Brown sugar / Duriel Harris
- The BATA dancer / Ayo Oyeku
- The Japanese teahouse / Octavia McBride-Ahebee
- Mbali on mama / Tony Medina
- Viruses / Lamont B. Steptoe
- Winter / Carlos T. Mock
- Thousands of angels / Anna Forbes
- Let's confront AIDS / Dennis Brutus.