His books include Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful - a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones 19,743 ratings, 4.29 average rating, 2,481 reviews Open Preview How We Fight For Our Lives Quotes Showing 1-30 of 65 People don’t just happen. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another - and to one another - as we fight to become ourselves. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence - into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones.
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