Funeral Diva

In personal essays and poetry, Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s, capturing the impact of AIDS on Black queer life, and highlighting the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Offering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, Funeral Diva confronts today's most pressing issues and closes with the poet's reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of ...