Where Brooklyn At?

"Roger Bonair-Agard gives us an epic in verse. From his homeland of Trinidad to NYC, Where Brooklyn At? shows us a world in the midst of radical change, but nothing so much as ourselves. Don't we all cross daily the imaginary borders drawn by nations, roughnecks, police and realtors? And like the best of epic heroes, he ekes the music, love and joy out of the commonplace violence of American life. But no one could render this life so vividly or mine its language for such harrowing truths as Bonair-Agard does. These poems restore us. This poet is a hero for our time."--Gregory Pardlo, Digest

"Best yet--sentimental, angry, reflective, urgent. I'm astonished by it."--Patricia Smith, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Author: Roger Bonair-Agard
Publisher: Willow Publishing
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 94
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780997199680

About the Author
Bonair-Agard, Roger: - Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad & Tobago and Brooklyn. He is the author of three previous collections of poems, tarnish & masquerade and GULLY (both from Cypher Books) and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), which won the Society of Midland Authors award for poetry and was long listed for the National Book Award. He fronts the band Miyamoto is Black Enough, and is co-founder of NYC's LouderARTS Project and Chicago's The Baldwin Protocols Series. The Director of Creative Writing with Free Write Arts & Literacy, he lives in Chicago and is Nina's father.

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