“And the House Burned Down”: HIV, Intimacy, and Memory in Danez Smith’s Poetry

Danez Smith’s [insert] boy (2014) not only bears witness to the intricacy of the intersection between queerness and Blackness in the United States of the twenty-first century, but also illustrates an overcoming of multiple forms of oppression through poetry. In Smith’s second collection Don’t Call U...

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Main Author: Juncosa Toni R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-12-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0194