Song of My Songs

Song of My Songs

Daniel Black’s ninth book, Isaac’s Song, is a novel about Black gay becoming in the 1980s. This work lives in the same universe as his 2022 novel Don’t Cry for Me. Photo: Evelyn Quiñones Like the earlier book, written in epistolary style, Isaac’s Song employs a nontraditional format, constructed around a set of visits with a therapist and interspersed with memories that are each titled as a numbered “Day.” The novel dunks us into the colorful li…