What Does It Mean To Lay Your Burden Down

Since I Laid My Burden Down

An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

Nick Cave Chord Songbook Collection

For the very first time, the selected works of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman are presented in in one exclusive chord songbook collection. This is a unique folio, spanning the extent of Nick Cave’s career over the past three decades. Each song is arranged for guitar with full lyrics and chord box diagrams. Song List: - (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? - (I Don’t Need You To) Set Me Free - (I’ll Love You) Till The End Of The World - And No More Shall We Part - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side - Babe, I Got You Bad - Babe, You Turn Me On - Breathless - Bring It On - Brompton Oratory - Cannibal’s Hymn - Christina The Astonishing - City Of Refuge - Darker With The Day - Deanna - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Do You Love Me? - Do You Love Me? (Part 2) - Far From Me - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow - Foi Na Cruz - From Her To Eternity - Gates To The Garden - Get Ready For Love - God Is In The House - He Wants You - Heathen Child - Henry Lee - Hold On To Yourself - I Let Love In - Idiot Prayer - Into My Arms - Jack The Ripper - Jangling Jack - Jesus Of The Moon - John Finn’s Wife - Knockin' On Joe - Lament - Lay Me Low - Let The Bells Ring - Lime-Tree Arbour - Loom Of The Land - Love Bomb - Love Letter - Loverman - Lucy - Midnight Man - More News From Nowhere - Nature Boy - No Pussy Blues - Nobody’s Baby Now - Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry - People Ain’t No Good - Red Right Hand - Right Now I’m A-Roaming - Rock Of Gibraltar - Sad Waters - Sorrow’s Child - Stagger Lee - Straight To You - Supernaturally - The Carny - The Curse Of Millhaven - The Good Son - The Lyre Of Orpheus - The Mercy Seat - The Ship Son - The Train Song - The Weeping Song - There Is A Kingdom - There She Goes, My Beautiful World - Today’s Lesson - Tupelo - Under This Moon - Up Jumped The Devil - Watching Alice - We Call Upon The Author - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? - Where The Wild Roses Grow - Wonderful Life - Worm Tamer - Your Funeral, My Trial

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