October mourning
a song for Matthew Shepard
by Lesléa Newman and Lesléa Newman
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On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day.
Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life.
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Murder, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Law & Crime, Juvenile fiction, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Homosexuality, Fiction, Gays, Hate crimes, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General, Novels in verse, Homicide, JUVENILE NONFICTION, Gay men, Poetry, Crimes against, Law & Crime, Juvenile poetry, General, Homosexuality, Social Issues, poems, LGBTQ poetry, Stonewall Book Awards, Gay men, fiction, Wyoming, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, general, Death and burial, Murder victimsPeople
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October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
2020, Candlewick Press, Candlewick
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October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Mar 09, 2016, Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
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October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
Sep 25, 2012, Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
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October mourning: a song for Matthew Shepard
2012, Candlewick
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in English
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