Broke Baroque

Broke Baroque
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher: 2Leaf Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-07-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0988476398

BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. Centered on Medina’s iconic everyman, Broke, a character that bears witness to his plight of homelessness in a humorous yet profound way. BROKE BAROQUE contains poetry peppered with images articulating Broke’s erratic experiences on the streets of Any City, USA. Through tall tales, anecdotes, episodes, rants and jokes, Broke eloquently and irreverently conveys his marginalization in a grossly unaccommodating society. With his trademark absurd and caustic wit, Medina portrays Broke’s anger, fear, humility, and resolve with humor, insight and compassion, bringing moments of levity and hopefulness to Broke’s plight. Funny and perversely sharp, whimsical and impassioned, BROKE BAROQUE is compulsively readable and will connect with any book and poetry lover alike. With a powerful introduction by McArthur-winner Ishmael Reed.

On the Lam

On the Lam
Author: Stanley Grauso
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1481735039

Based on the testimony of real events. A compelling story that takes a look into the life of a young Stanley Grauso, raised in a middle class Connecticut Italian family during Prohibition years. Stanley's life soon spirals out of control, landing him in the company of some of the most reputed mobsters of our time, including Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Arthur Flegenheimer (aka Dutch Scultz), and F. Donald Coster (aka Phil Musica).

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
Author: Tiffany Austin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000737160

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.

The BreakBeat Poets

The BreakBeat Poets
Author: Kevin Coval
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1608463958

A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom Teeth
Author: Derrick Weston Brown
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1604865601

To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet’s life and world, as told through a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some the poet’s own. Wisdom Teeth is a questioning work, a redefining of personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. It’s a readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective as Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.

Butterflies in Heat

Butterflies in Heat
Author: Darwin Porter
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781877978951

The most scorching novel of the bizarre, the flamboyant, the corrupt since Midnight Cowboy. This strikingly beautiful, blond hustler has come to the end of the line. Next stop - nowhere. Here, in the searing heat of the tropical cay, he was to arouse passions in six flamboyant but vulnerable people whose lives mesh under the blood-red sun.

Collected Shorter Plays

Collected Shorter Plays
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 030010779X

O'Neill's themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays which are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here are nine one-act plays that span the playwright's career.

CRAZY PRINCE CHAPTER 21

CRAZY PRINCE CHAPTER 21
Author: TRAM DOAN
Publisher: TRAM DOAN
Total Pages: 136
Release:
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Lam Van saw Ly Duong pressing his hand into his sleeve, so without hesitation he launched the Soul Devouring Spear and pierced Ly Duong's body. Once you reach the level of Mahayana cultivation, you are not easy to play with. Lam Van will not let them go because they are seriously injured. Once they made any strange movements, he did not hesitate to kill them.