I just got my poetry loving hands on MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM . I talked with Tony about his work as a writer and professor of English, at the recent Capital Book Festival in Maryland. Reviews My Old Man Was Always on the Lam contains powerful, moving, compassionate poems that spring out of the life of Harlem apartments and streets. It contains deeply felt, evocative poems of loss and mourning. In an era when too much work produced depends totally on the polished surface provided by the use of brilliant language. Tony Medina risks everything with his willingness to tear away the surface skin of relationships and life, to journey to that dark center where memorable poetry lives. My Old Man Was Always on the Lam is the work of a truly original and vibrant poet. --Maria Mazziotti Gillan, author of the American Book Award-winning All That Lies Between Us Demonstrating a combination of traits that gives him a voice like no one else, Tony Medina's poems are funny, intense, and tr...
