Poetry. These poems are interesting exhortations, rants and meditations on subjects relating to working. They are bound to strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to make a living. When I read the inimitable Jack Wiler, I can't tell if I'm laughing or crying, or being punched in the teeth by the Zeitgeist. Here is true grit, true rage, true fear and lust, true language. If you hate your job, read this book. Read it anyway. Face it and laugh (Alicia Ostriker). I could hear the worms in the walls. / Old house borers clicking in the timbers of the attic. / Termites tumbling over each other / in the damp wood of the basement. / Everything working very fast hastening decay. / Work fast we all cried. / There is the devil's work to be done. / Work fast. (The Devil's Workshop). In Jack Wiler's world it's always busy for no discernible reason except so you can tell the difference between the working stiff and the stiff stiff. Wiler's the Poet of Scabs and Warts, where every glimmer has a slammer, a can of can't, a dose of don'

I Have No Clue

Literature & Fiction

Wiler, Jack

Shot, Dan

Poetry

Long Shot Productions

Poetry. African American Studies. "this hall always real cold / smells like piss / and it's dark / but I'm better off here / than some park bench / in the park / my dinner consists of / crack/twinkies and chips / but it stings when I chew / through this / busted lip" ("home alone"). These rhyming, tightly constructed poems are amazing displays of prosodic accuity and politcal rage. Reg E. Gaines is a Grand Slam Champion, Bessie Award Winner, Grammy Nominee, and two time Tony winner for Best Book : BRING IN DA NOISE, BRING IN DA FUNK. "they search for the land of milk and honey / yet it isn't funny / how the wages they're paid / hardly makes them able / to put milk / on their own dinner table// still" ("next stop roslyn").

The Original Buckwheat

Gaines, Reg E.

Poetry. SERMONS FROM THE SMELL OF A CARCASS CONDEMNED TO BEGGING is a long poem, consisting of 96 sermons in the voice of a homeless persona or everyman named Broke. It is the first in a series, which includes PICTURES OF BROKE and BROKE ON ICE. Broke is in the tradition of Langston Hughes' Simple and Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, as well as Nicanor Parra's Christ of Elqui and Zbigniew Herbert's Mr. Cognito. (Author's Note) Those that murder me / say that I'm responsible / for my falling hair / for my lack of air / I'm responsible / for my ribs / caving in / for my tongue / drying out for the stars / that stain / about my eyes / that can't even / vomit tears (Broke Mirror Image). Tony Medina is the author of ERGE & See, NO NOOSE IS GOOD NOOSE, and co-editor (with S.E. Anderson) of the award-winning anthology IN DEFENSE OF MUMIA. Born in the South Bronx, he currently lives in Langston Hughes and Malcolm X's Harlem, and is a professor of English.

Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned To Begging

Medina, Tony

Memories of Eating

Poetry. African American Studies. Cheryl Boyce Taylor is a poet born in Trinidad and transplanted to New York; her verse is saturated with the music of her homes. Joan Larkin writes, Listen to this rich, musical, intimate voice, at home in the speech of New York and Trinidad, ripe to bursting with love of luscious sounds. In the strong cadences of these new poems, Cheryl Boyce Taylor speaks with authority ... Taylor is a spell-spinner.

Night When Moon Follows

Taylor, Cheryl Boyce

<p>Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Nancy Mercado, editor-in-chief of LONG SHOT, a literary and arts publication, has presented her work throughout the United States and Europe. She is currently a professor at Boricua College. IT CONCERNS THE MADNESS introduces Nancy Mercado as a major Nuyorican American voice to the ranks of North American Latino literature. The language is crisp, muscular and spiritually medicinal -- Miguel Algarin.</p>

It Concerns the Madness

Mercado, Nancy

History & Criticism

Poetry. "With painstaking freedom, with rugged charm, with a hand in yours, a voice that walks, Tsurah's BABY ON THE WATER is the True Story of Love. Love we do not often see, she does. Ms. Litzky lights the sky with it ain't easy. Untease makes me talk like this, like writing. Tsaurah Litzky is La Llorna of the Lower East Side, Queen of the Scene. Now we have her on record it's like the streets are talking, and they aren't ouching under footsteps. They are rejoicing in their utility. As she strolls these streets, these poems sing every step of the way, the True Story of Love"--Bob Holman.

Baby on the Water: New and Selected Poems

Litzky, Tsaurah

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