Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body by Atta, Dean

Dean Atta

Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body

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'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARKYou've fought and you've run away.You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.Sometimes you wanted to...

'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARK

You've fought and you've run away.
You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.
Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held.
With all that you've endured, you are nothing less than miraculous.

From choirboy to drag act, grandson to mentor, poet to lover, Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In this formally inventive, candid and courageous book, he explores what he has carried in his body: wins and losses, shame and pride, pain and joy. Dean also investigates how radical self-acceptance and a willingness to abide with discomfort open up the possibility of a life lived beyond definition: a person unlimited.

Dean Atta is an award-winning author and performance poet. He won the 2012 London Poetry Award and was named as one of the most influential LGBT people by the Independent on Sunday Pink List. He has written two YA novel-in-verses which includes The Black Flamingo which was a top-selling debut of 2020, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Jhalak Prize and the YA Book Prize. The Black Flamingo was also awarded the prestigious Stonewall Book Award and the Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Award 2020. Person Unlimited is his non-fiction debut. @DeanAtta

Genre
Poetry
Pages
272
Publisher
Canongate Books
Publication Date
Content
ISBN
9781838855680

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