Broke Baroque E-Book

Tony Medina

• Herausgeber: 2Leaf Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. Centered on Medina’s iconic everyman, Broke is a character that bears witness to his plight of homelessness in a humorous yet profound way, on the streets of Any City, USA. Through tall tales, anecdotes, episodes, rants and jokes, Broke eloquently and irreverently conveys his marginalization in a grossly unaccommodating society. Funny and perversely sharp, whimsical and impassioned, BROKE BAROQUE is compulsively readable and will connect with any book and poetry lover alike.

Leseprobe

by Tony Medina

With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed

P.O. Box 4378 Grand Central Station New York, New York [email protected]

2LEAF PRESS is an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that promotes multicultural literature and literacy.www.theiaas.org

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Library of Congress Control Number:  2013933165 Print Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0-9884-763-5-6ePub Edition, 978-0-9884763-9-4

Disclaimer: Note to the Reader

Viewing this eBook at a higher than optimal text size will cause the reading experience to be altered considerably. Since eBooks are formatted as reflowable text and have to work on many different screens and devices, it is impossible to guarantee that the poems will display as the poet intended. As such, some of the lines will display as multiple lines of text. When this occurs, the turn of the line will be marked with a slight indent, prompting the reader that this is a continuation of a previous line. In order to read the poetry as it was written, we suggest that you read this book at the default font size on your device. Please note, that spacing of some of the poems were either truncated or eliminated to accommodate reflowable text format. Please refer to the print edition of this book for a more accurate rendering of the poetry.

Books by Tony Medina

POETRY

Broke Baroque

An Onion of Wars

Broke on Ice

My Old Man Was Always on the Lam

Committed to Breathing

Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging

No Noose Is Good Noose

Emerge & See

FOR YOUNG READERS

The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems

I and I, Bob Marley

Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response

Love to Langston

Christmas Makes Me Think

DeShawn Days

EDITOR

Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art, with Samiya A. Bashir and Quraysh Ali Lansana

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, with Louis Reyes Rivera

In Defense of Mumia, with S. E. Anderson

Credits

Cover Design: Miriam Ahmed

Cover art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, 1982, acrylic, oil paintstick, and spray paint on canvas, 94 1/2 x 165 1/2; Copyright © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, New York, 2013

Book design and layout: Gabrielle David (www.gabrielle-david.com)

For Lynette Velasco,

Jan Carew,

Jayne Cortez,

Marlene Lillian Hawthrone-Thomas,

Yvonne E. Aiken, and

My uncle Denny "Cholo" Ortiz Bahamundi —

Ancestral

"Somebody is always trying to take disadvantage of me."

—Jesse B. Semple

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Disclaimer: Note to the Reader

Books by Tony Medina

Credits

Dedication

Quote

INTRODUCTION

Poet Laureate of the Broke

BROKE NOTE

Broke Baroque

Broke Bail Out

Broke Villanelle

Broke Cat Gaucho Tongue

Broke Confession

Broke on the Job

Broke Bop Shuffle

Broke in Jail

Broke Wet Dreams

Broke Pick-of-the-Day

Broke Dick Dog

Broke Back Payments

Broke Believer

Broke Broken

Broke without Head & Shoulders

Broke with Indigestion

Broke with Headache