Raising Sweetness by Diane Stanley
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Michael Broder's moving and lucid poems have heart, music, audacity--and they give a quiet, lasting pleasure, like an ancient Greek torso reshaped for the space age. THIS LIFE NOW is full of salt, sex, TV, and other riveting varieties of poised explosiveness, to which his lucky reader blissfully surrenders.--Wayne KoestenbaumDare I confess that this wise and sassy and heartbreaking collection made me scour YouTube for past episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Such are the subtle, ethereal, and playful gifts of Michael Broder's poems that a reader won't want to miss any allusion. No matter how bittersweet or fleeting, these poems, which span more than thirty years of an emerging queer consciousness, chart an unflinching poetics for the missing and unaccounted for. The book makes so many foundational moments and episodes of a thriving culture reappear and cohere, with such grim acceptance and celebration, that it takes our breath away.--Peter Covino
Diane Stanley is the author and artist of many renowned children's books, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was selected a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; and The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was called a
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| ISBN 13 | 9780399232251 |
| ISBN 10 | 0399232257 |
| Title | Raising Sweetness |
| Author | Diane Stanley |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1999-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Grades K-3) 2002 |
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