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and while the gay community has seen improved treatments for AIDS

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Will the forced intimacy of working on the play together help them figure things out or just make them worse

Graphite Format:Paperback Glamorous movie star Dara ThomasPatricia Frazier's Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city and state sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.