In I Use To Fall Down, his first major compi-lation of his poems,
which was favorably received, Mr. Holiday took the reader on a
whirlwind of emotional topics, from nuclear
proliferation(Washerwoman Blues) to starving children in Somalia
(Il Walad), from police bru-tality (Rest In Peace, Cop Killers, and
When the Cops Drive By) to reflections on his twenty-one years
under the New York City foster care system(Somehow, Mama Knew, Stop
Laughing At Me, and What Dad Might Have Said). He has attempted to
be honest, some have said too brutally honest, about abuse, the
very abuse he has experienced at the hands of care-takers and that
abuse which he sees perpetrated by man against man.With Letters to
Osama..., Mr. Holiday runs the gambit, again, of topics as current
as the war over Iraq, the ugliness of 9-ll, and he continues to be
brutally honest in his criticisms and observations of the Bush
Administration, the UN, and other world leaders and the roles they
play in the world4s conflicts(foreign and domes-tic).D. Alexander
Holiday is a native New Yorker, raised in foster care and was
stricken with Gillian Barre Syndrome (also called Ascending
Paralysis) at the age of ten. He holds a Master of Arts degree from
the State University of New York at Albany. He is currently working
on his autobiography, In the Care of Strangers: The Autobiography
of A Foster Child. His work can be found on the web at:
www.feelingandform.com, www.albanypoets.inc. and
www.poetix.net/columbia.htm
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