Notes
A veteran of the spoken-word scene, two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard releases his debut book, Tarnish and Masquerade, with accompanying CD full of spellbinding poems. These poems 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.
In Bonair-Agard’s collection, we get to taste rum for the first time, get angry at adults for the first time, and point fingers at those who should know better. There are rich tapestries of color that expose the stories of these writings as well-crafted, intent-driven poems. Accompanied by a CD, this book is rich on many different levels.
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