Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's National Poetry Slam Champions

In the summer of 1998 they took the belt at the National Poetry Slam, the first team from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. These five New York poets stand at the vanguard of the slam movement, with verse that is passionate, tight, political and lucid.

• Author
• Roger Bonair-Agard, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Lynne Procope, Alix Olson, Stephen Colman, Bob Holman

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 186

• Publisher
• Soft Skull Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781887128483

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2000