Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems
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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 longing—sexual and filial—and 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.Publishers WeeklyPatrick Rosal's Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive kicks off with old school-obsessed narratives ("To be To B-boy To lace shell-toe Adidas/ To say Word Kurtis Blow") but takes his investigations of masculinity far into the neighborhood, elegizing friends and unknowns, contemplating group dynamics ("at this moment There isn't one who doesn't laugh") and pondering "the catalog of unloved/ gestures a woman lets no one read." Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
B-Boy Infinitives3Freddie5Nine Thousand Outlines6Lazarus8A Good Day9You Clubhouse Boys11The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles13Ritual from the Book of Mistakes15Citrus City17Linwood19Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry21A Prayer at the Edge of the Map22Ode to Edison, NJ23The Smokedrift25As I Read Etheridge Knight for the First Time28Next30Notes for the Unwritten Biography of My Father, an Ex-Priest35Asbury Park, 197738Three Hours40A Riff For My Mother4130 June 200042The Overnight Ferry43"My Mother is in Los Angeles"44Uncommon Denominators46Aiza48The Ancient Baguio Dead50A Song for Women52The Basque Nose53Litany of the Missing Cheekbone55Igneous56Be Reminded of Nothing57Better59Poem61Pick-up Line Ending with a Prayer62
