Download or read book Some Are Drowning written by Reginald Shepherd and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.