num_pages: 88
description: This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity.  Many voices haunt these poems: black and white, male and female, the oppressor’s voice as well as the oppressed.  The poet’s aim, finally, is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning.
language: English
title: Some Are Drowning
titlecomplete: Some Are Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Queer, LGBT, Poetry
ratings_count: 41
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press