Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's National Poetry Slam Champions by Alix Olson, Roger Bonair-Agard, Bob Holman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Lynne Procope, Stephen Colman

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

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

186 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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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.

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