My Old Man Was Always on the Lam (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)

Poetry. African American Studies. MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM is a blues memoir in verse. With brutal honesty and lyrical prowess, Tony Medina plays the changes in an intimate collection that sticks like a stinging Ali punch and moves like a New York City subway train through the raw, unmitigated terrain of his psyche. Sparked by the sudden death of his father in Harlem, MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM examines his relationship with a long-lost mother who abandoned him at birth, exploring his Bronx projects childhood and his relationship with the paternal grandmother who wrestled him from the clutches of the State and raised him, culminating with a reunion with his terminally ill mother, attempting to fill in the gaps of a precarious past destined to collide with its bare-bones present. In this, his fifth full-length collection, Tony Medina is at his most personal and revelatory.

General

Imprint:	Nyq Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Authors:	Tony Medina
Dimensions:	224 x 150 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	112
Edition:	2nd Revised ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-935520-36-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-935520-36-9
Barcode:	9781935520368

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