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Roy Guzman, “Restored Mural for Orlando/Mural Restaurado Para Orlando” (Queerodactyl Press, 2016)
After the enormity of our loss had been calculated, Guzman started writing. Drawn to the page to process his grief and to understand in the best way poets know how, through their art. This chapbook does more than encapsulate the memory of a community, it links that community to a single life and to a larger struggle.
/I am afraid of attending places
that celebrate our bodies because that’s also where our bodies
have been cancelled/ when you’re brown and gay you’re always dying
twice/
We are kicking off our chapbook celebration with a call to remembrance to preserve the memory of the 49 people…
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