Mine is a Community of Misfits & Outlaws

By Jesse James Johnson

Book Overview

Mine is Community of Misfits and Outlaws. These are poems, infused with the raw energy and wonderment of a writer for whom regards poetry is a force for social transformation. The poems are organized into two collections - the first, The Tenderloin Poems are a celebration and defense of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. A vibrant mosaic of ethnicities, languages, faiths, and complexions and one last enclaves of poor and working-class people in the City. The second collection the Long Twilight is a geography of myth, history, and memory in which the personal is intertwined with the cultural and political developments of this country. These poems skip around early childhood events; sweep through the flowering of identity; the origins of political consciousness; and the poet's discovery of the body. Here there are poems of darker time - life in wilderness of urban America during the AIDS epidemic. These are followed by poems grappling with living in this period of environmental degradation and its unpromising consequences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977298531
• ISBN13: 9780977298532
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Will to Print Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"