"Praise Song in Lieu of Obituary" - Evelyn Berry [The Book Tavern]
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Details
| Title | "Praise Song in Lieu of Obituary" - Evelyn Berry [The Book Tavern] |
| Author | Evelyn Berry Writer |
| Duration | 1:15 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=MCLFZJokcso |
Description
Evelyn Berry performs "Diving Duck” from her debut poetry collection Grief Slut at the Book Tavern in Augusta, GA.
Evelyn Berry's debut poetry collection, Grief Slut, is an examination of the queer lineage of pleasure, grief, and resilience in the American South. Berry offers a portrait of a girl living through boyhood and grappling with the violence of nostalgia in poems that blend high art, archival slivers, and Taco Bell. This collection invites us into a landscape home to sloppy kissers, swamp suitors, scrappy “limbwrecked boys,” and drag queens drenched in glitter sweat, where “each day is trespass” and queer youth fight to “hear one another breathe just a little while longer."
