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Does Your House Have Lions?

Nominated for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

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An epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.

Genre
gay
Setting
1990s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 70 pages
Form
poetry

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