num_pages: 72
description: kids everywhere are called to supper: it's lateit's dark and you're all played out. you want to go homeno rule is left to this game. playmates scatter like breaking glassthey return to smear the ______. and you're it--from "[you'd want to go to the reunion: see]"In Cocktails, D. A. Powell closes his contemporary Divine Comedy with poems of sharp wit and graceful eloquence born of the AIDS pandemic. These poems, both harrowing and beautiful, strive toward redemption and light within the transformative and often conflicting worlds of the cocktail lounge, the cinema, and the Gospels.
language: English
title: Cocktails
titlecomplete: Cocktails
genres: LGBT, Queer, Gay, Poetry
ratings_count: 434
series: A Divine Comedy
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Poetry, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
publisher: Graywolf Press