Charles Harvey

The Last Supper (eBook, ePUB)

Poems of Truth, Survival, and the Body Uncensored

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Last Supper is a confessional poetry collection at the crossroads of Black identity, queer desire, faith, grief, and the body. Written in the long shadow of the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan-era 1980s, these poems move between church pews and bedrooms, prayer and appetite, survival and truth. There are no roses or limericks here-only candor, heat, and witness. The voice is direct, vulnerable, and unafraid of the flesh or the spirit.

In the title poem, a young man speaks his final request: "A sip of water please a little string beans Wait now, you're rushing me."

These poems remember the young and the lost, but they also insist on joy, hunger, and the stubborn pulse of life. For readers of Danez Smith, Jericho Brown, and Essex Hemphill, The Last Supper holds God and the body in the same light and refuses to apologize for telling the truth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wes Writers and Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 63
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610000480388
• Artikelnr.: 75862568

Autorenporträt

Charles W. Harvey is a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of Houston. At UofH he studied fiction under the guidance of Rosellen Brown and Chitra Divakaruni. In 1987, Charles was a 1st place prize recipient of PEN/Discovery for his short story Cheeseburger, which went on to be published in the Ontario Review. In 1989 Charles Harvey was awarded the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant for Writers and Artists. Also in 1989 he was a finalist in the MacDonald's Literary Achievement Awards. Charles has been published in Soulfires, Story Magazine SHADE, High Infidelity, The James White Review, and others. He is the author of the novels The Butterfly Killer, The Road to Astroworld, and Antoine's Double Trouble. He is also the author of several story and poetry collections. He also writes for the stage and screen.