Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, LOVE CAKE also documents the persistence of survival and beauty especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of color loving and desiring. LOVE CAKE maps the joys and challenges of reclaiming the body and sexuality after violence, examining a family history of violence with compassion and celebrating the resilient, specific ways we create new families, take our bodies back, love, fight, and transform violence.Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer handicapped femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ancestry. She is the co-editor of The Revolution Begins at Home and the author of the poetry collections Love Cake and Consensual Genocide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781894770699 |
| ISBN 10 | 1894770692 |
| Title | Love Cake |
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tsar Publications |
| Year published | 2011-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2012 |
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