October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142514to listen full audiobooks. Title: October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard Author: Lesléa Newman Narrator: Lesléa Newman, Emily Beresford, Christina Traister, Kate Rudd, Luke Daniels, Nick Podehl, Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release date: September 25, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured 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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