Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English at Cornell University. The coeditor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture, a special issue of Callaloo, Woubshet has also published his work in Transition, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, and African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies.

Early AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex

Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English at Cornell University. The coeditor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture, a special issue of Callaloo, Woubshet has also published his work in Transition, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, and African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies.

Early AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex

Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English at Cornell University. The coeditor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture, a special issue of Callaloo, Woubshet has also published his work in Transition, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, and African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies.

Early AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex