--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 tragic, and sometimes make you laugh until you cry. There's a terrible beauty in this book, a sparse and haunting music that stays with you. These poems are brave, and true, and well worth returning to again and again.
--Leslie Heywood, author of Pretty Good for a Girl and The Proving Grounds
Tony Medina infuses his signature wordplay with a heightened aesthetic urgency in these bare-boned, tender laments for his parents, extended family, and humanity or lack thereof. The old folks/In front of/My father's/Building are/ Buildings that/have been/Abandoned - these poems are sober brutal truths as pavement for a long ill-tempered sprint with death. And life. --Quraysh Ali Lansana, author of They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems
About the Author
Tony Medina was born in the South Bronx and raised in the Throgs Neck Housing Projects. He served in the United States Army and earned a BA in English at Baruch College, CUNY, on the GI Bill. He has taught at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. The author of several books for adults and children, his poetry, fiction and essays appear in over forty anthologies. Medina, whose most recent book is I and I, Bob Marley, earned a MA and PhD in English from Binghamton University, SUNY, and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University.
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