Falling Wallendas

"Whether Michael Brown is warning us against the "advance men for fascism" of inhaling the breath of his lover through the phone receiver, the words reach us with a depth and breadth of sincerity that comes from a lifetime of remembrance. He speaks for the American under-class - the people found in any city, on the bus, shivering outside a shelter. These poems are like a Wallenda's tightrope stretched across a wide abyss of warning, wound with incredible humor in the face of catastrophe. This is the long-awaited first collection from one of America's most powerful and endearing performance poets" --Sean Thomas Doughtery, Editor, Red Brick View