October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Hardcover

Newman, Leslea

 
9780763658076: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0763658073 ISBN 13: 9780763658076
Verlag: Candlewick, 2012

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A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world.

On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day. Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life.
Back matter includes an epilogue, an afterword, explanations of poetic forms, and resources.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lesléa Newman is the author of more than seventy books for children and adults, including the groundbreaking children's classic Heather Has Two Mommies. She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Candlewick
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0763658073
ISBN 13 
9780763658076
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Candlewick Press
https://www.candlewick.com/

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