Uprock Headspin Scramble Dive Paperback by Patrick Rosal

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2006-09-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 64 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892552931
• Item Weight: 108.86 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

About the Author

Patrick Rosal is an interdisciplinary artist and author of five previous books, most recently The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Willams Award, and Brooklyn Antediluvian, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. He has earned fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Senior Research Program. He is Professor of English and inaugural Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden.