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My Old Man Was Always On The Lam
by Tony Medina

    Publication Date: Mar 01, 2011
    List Price: $14.95
    Format: Paperback, 112 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781935520368
    Imprint: NYQ Books
    Publisher: NYQ Books
    Parent Company: NYQ Books

    Paperback Description:

    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.



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