Uprock Headspin: Scramble and Dive

By Patrick Rosal

The debut collection from a vibrant, streetwise voice: Winner of the 2002 Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop.

Patrick Rosal's poetry rings with the music of no-frills industrial towns of central New Jersey. Portraits of hip-hoppers and condemned men (whose misdeeds as boys forever shaped their futures) alternate with dynamic riffs on longingsexual and filialand on the poet's Filipino roots. Unpredictable and breathtaking as a sax solo, these poems are the indelible marks made by a world that has been simultaneously kept close and left behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089255293X
• ISBN13: 9780892552931
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 67 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"