BOOK RELEASE PARTY - "Tarnish and Masquerade" -- poems by Roger Bonair-Agard

BOOK RELEASE PARTY - "Tarnish and Masquerade" -- poems by Roger Bonair-Agard



Come join the huge amounts of friends, family, poets and the casual hanger on who will celebrate this joyous event. Club Sol is the hottest club in NYC and we get to use it for free [as long as you are there by 7pm]. We also get to stay afterwards and party like only poets do.



"...a profoundly muscular intelligence and a sensuality that can be wholly and beautifully dangerous." -- Kwame Dawes



"Someone whose poetry can be entered and felt and understood. An impressive work." -- Amiri Baraka



BOOK RELEASE PARTY - "Tarnish and Masquerade" -- poems by Roger Bonair-Agard

(Cypher Books, 2006)



Friday, October 20

at Club SOL -- 609 W. 29th Street (between 11th and 12th)

7-10 p.m.

FREE



With performances by the author, as well as renowned poets/performers Patricia Smith, Patrick Rosal, Marty McConnell , and Lynne Procope.



ROGER BONAIR-AGARD is the author of "Tarnish and Masquerade" (Cypher Books, 2006), and co-author of "Burning Down the House" (Soft Skull Press, 2000). Former National Individual Slam Champion and a member of six National Poetry Slam teams, he has appeared three times on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, is a Cave Canem fellow, and tours the country and the world teaching and performing at colleges, universities, and festivals. Join us as he releases his debut book, with accompanying CD full of spellbinding poems that chart an exile's coming-of-age and an increasingly relevant immigrant's experience. Whether set in Trinidad, Washington Heights, Texas, Brooklyn or other less-fixed locales, these poems written (and spoken) with equal parts joy and fury are full of clarity, compassion and unsentimentality.



"These strong, full-hearted poems describe the longing for home and tradition in a land with people and problems not of one's own making; reading them is a dance with rhythm and desire." -- Daphne Gottlieb



"These sunwashed revelations -- this lilting, uproarious, precise gospel -- brings so much to the table that the reader is nearly overwhelmed. Roger Bonair-Agard is his own revolution, a deft purveyor of unflinching politics, stark sensuality and the relentless drum of the island home that beckons from every page. There is simply no resisting these stanzas, absolutely no way to turn away from what they will do to you." -- Patricia Smith



www.rattapallax.com

www.RogerBonairAgard.com





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Acentos Bronx Poetry- October 2005



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