Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems by Patrick Rosal
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Winner of the 2002 Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop.
Patrick Rosal's poetry rings with the music of no-frills industrial towns of central New Jersey. Portraits of hip-hoppers and condemned men (whose misdeeds as boys forever shaped their futures) alternate with dynamic riffs on longing sexual and filial and on the poet's Filipino roots. Unpredictable and breathtaking as a sax solo, these poems are the indelible marks made by a world that has been simultaneously kept close and left behind.
A groundbreaking, singularly vivacious and memorable work of poetic insight and energetic commentary. -- Midwest Book Review
[A] book from whose pages you'll emerge shaken, heartbroken, annealed, made new. -- Junot DÌ_az
[An] astonishing first collection by a young poet of immense gifts. -- Thomas Lux
About Author
Patrick Rosal lives in Rahway, New Jersey, and teaches writing and literature at Bloomfield College.
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Persea; Uitgawe ed. edition (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 089255293-X
ISBN-13: 978-08-9-255293-1
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Patrick Rosal's poetry rings with the music of no-frills industrial towns of central New Jersey. Portraits of hip-hoppers and condemned men (whose misdeeds as boys forever shaped their futures) alternate with dynamic riffs on longing sexual and filial and on the poet's Filipino roots. Unpredictable and breathtaking as a sax solo, these poems are the indelible marks made by a world that has been simultaneously kept close and left behind.
A groundbreaking, singularly vivacious and memorable work of poetic insight and energetic commentary. -- Midwest Book Review
[A] book from whose pages you'll emerge shaken, heartbroken, annealed, made new. -- Junot DÌ_az
[An] astonishing first collection by a young poet of immense gifts. -- Thomas Lux
About Author
Patrick Rosal lives in Rahway, New Jersey, and teaches writing and literature at Bloomfield College.
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Persea; Uitgawe ed. edition (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 089255293-X
ISBN-13: 978-08-9-255293-1
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces