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I'm Not a Good Person, I'm a New Yorker

I'm Not a Good Person, I'm a New Yorker - Hardcover

by Jamal Hodge
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jamal HodgeTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African AmericanPublish date:9/1/2026Pages:130
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Crystal Lake PublishingISBN-13:9781968532833ISBN-10:1968532838UPC:9781968532833Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Diversity & MulticulturalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCM26WCHJ5

There's no place like New York City, and yet, New York City is like all places.

"Choose any path," the city seems to say, "each street a doorway, each door, an unknown."

From Bram Stoker and Elgin Award winner Jamal Hodge, I'm Not A Good Person, I'm A New Yorker is an exploration of New York's many paths, a poetry mixtape about race, class, love, loss, and survival that uses a Black man's lived experience to reveal the cultural architecture of the world's greatest city.

This collection channels the spirits of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and other poets of the Harlem Renaissance as it walks the long blocks between beauty and brutality, all beneath the bright lights of the city's tender grotesqueries, its savage and wondrous togetherness.

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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Crystal Lake PublishingISBN-13:9781968532833ISBN-10:1968532838UPC:9781968532833Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Diversity & MulticulturalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCM26WCHJ5
Hodge, Jamal: - Jamal Hodge is a native New Yorker and an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and poet. A member of the Horror Writers' Association and Science Fiction Poetry Association, a Bram Stoker Award winner, a Nebula Award finalist, and a Dwarf Stars and Elgin Award winner. Author of The Dark Between the Twilight, Everything Endless (with Linda D. Addison), I'm Not A Good Person I'm A New Yorker, and the editor of Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales and Shards of Gotham: New York City Through the Looking Glass (June 2027). Jamal loves the broken things that want to be understood and the secret things that never bother to hide. Through his writing, he hopes to uncover the paradox between suffering and meaning and to use darkness to reveal light. When he's not writing or filming, Jamal is traveling to odd locales, connecting with the youth, or bludgeoning an unsuspecting ear with an endless tide of philosophical drivel.He fancies himself a pretty cool guy.
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