Gospel: Poems

by Samiya Bashir

Lambda Literary Award finalist. GOSPEL is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this passionate follow-up to 2005's Lambda Literary Award finalist, WHERE THE APPLE FALLS, Bashir's poems challenge truth to stare down the power of fear and paralysis. "We intended gospel to strike a happy medium for the down-trodden," said gospel music pioneer Thomas Dorsey. "This music lifted people out of the muck and mire of poverty and loneliness, of being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097862517X
• ISBN13: 9780978625177
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Redbone Press
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 6.9"