Love Cake

by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha

Book, 2011

Publication

TSAR Publications (2011), 104 pages

Collection

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2012)
San Francisco Book Festival (Honorable Mention)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Several poems include bisexual content.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: The poems address issues facing queer people of color, in particular Arab and Sri Lankan people.

Publisher's Summary: ...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...

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