{"product_id":"be-not-afraid-of-my-darius-stewart-9781953368904","title":"Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an exhilarating new voice, a breathtaking memoir about gay desire, Blackness, and growing up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDarius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee--and eventually in Texas and Iowa, where he studies to become a poet--he details the obstacles to his most crucial desires: hiding his earliest attraction to boys in his neighborhood, predatory stalkers, doomed affairs, his struggles with alcohol addiction, and his eventual diagnosis with HIV. Through a mix of straightforward memoir, brilliantly surreal reveries, and moments of startling imagery and insight, Stewart's explorations of love, illness, chemical dependency, desire, family, joy, shame, loneliness, and beauty coalesce into a wrenching, musical whole.A lyrical narrative reminiscent of Saeed Jones's \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives \u003c\/i\u003eand Kiese Laymon's \u003ci\u003eHeavy, Be Not Afraid of My Body \u003c\/i\u003estands as a compelling testament to growing up Black and gay in America, and to the drive in all of us to collect the fragments of our own experience and transform them into a story that does justice to all the multitudes we contain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darius Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953368905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953368904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belt Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Darius Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181199519999,"sku":"9781953368904","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3220ef2-069c-4234-9844-5cfc6adc65a5.jpg?v=1690259111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/be-not-afraid-of-my-darius-stewart-9781953368904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}