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Newman, Lesléa

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

112 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-5807-6 $15.99
(2) YA Gay student Matthew Shepard's murder stunned the University of Wyoming community in October 1998; Gay Awareness Week was about to begin, with Newman the keynote speaker. Sixty-eight poems in varied forms present a range of voices--the fence, the doctor, stars--in this "historical novel in verse." Newman's language serves the voices well, the poems always simple, accessible, and moving. Reading list, websites.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012

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