Where The Color Purple Grows: The Intersection of Loving and Fearing Black (Queer) Bodies: Volume 2 (Collection) - Softcover

Patton, Stefano Sherrod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1986325210 ISBN 13: 9781986325219

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Where The Color Purple Grows: Collection II is a coming of age poetry and prose chapbook. In the style of an adolescent and young adult diary, the narratives’ various speakers use fantasy and childhood iconography to recall and cope with the dangers of living in a body which identifies as both Black and Queer. The whimsy, the humor, and the candidness help to unpack dangers that plague Black Queer bodies such as: HIV stigma/responsibility, the constant threat (imagined or realized) of racially motivated police brutality, equally related to the uncomfortable notion of a post-racial America, as well as intra-community abuse and brutality which courts self hate. Beyond the angst and peril, the cathartic collection encourages the reader to sojourn a vision of self-acceptance, forgiveness and reconciliation to hone the separate and coupled realities of Black and Queer.

About this title

About the Author

About Patton Black. Queer. HBCU educated. 2007-2011 contributed writings to the International Review of African American Art Journal (print & online). 2012 National Underground Spoken Award winner for his contribution to the anthology Strange Fruit: Rows 1-6 by the Left Side Poets Patton has also freelanced for various local Atlanta publications throughout the years.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1986325210
• ISBN 13: 9781986325219
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Corprew Jay
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 66