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Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

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Availability:In StockContributor:Willie PerdomoPublish date:1996-03-01Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393313833ISBN-10:393313832UPC:9780393313833Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:5.90 x 8.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCVVTN0DS

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip-hop rhythms and in-your-face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club where the hottest young poets are finding their fame.

Willie Perdomo's poems, in the tradition of Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Ntozake Shange, meet at the intersection of the street and the academy.

The world in these piercing and heartbreaking poems is...



Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393313833ISBN-10:393313832UPC:9780393313833Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:5.90 x 8.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCVVTN0DS
Perdomo, Willie: - Willie Perdomo is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award and Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, BOMB, Mandorla, and African Voices. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a former recipient of...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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