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Uprock Headspin: Scramble and Dive

The debut collection from a vibrant, streetwise voice: 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 longingsexual and filialand 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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 67
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780892552931
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2006