This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence of urban DC life and redefine personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. A readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective, this work channels everything from hip-hop and Toni Morrison to Snagglepuss and red giants to make way for a poetic eruption of wisdom.

• African American
• Art
• Beat
• Bop
• Brownku
• Eintou
• Family
• Hip Hop
• Hip-hop
• History
• Life
• Literature
• masculinity
• Music
• People of Colour
• POC
• Poem
• Poetry
• Prose
• Race
• Relationships

Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone.

• Assassin
• Creative Writing
• crime
• Fiction
• History
• Islam
• Persia
• Poet
• Poetry
• Sage
• Titanic
• travel

• Lesbian
• Poetry
• Sex
• Sexuality

• Experimental Writing
• feminism
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Sex
• Women's Writing

• Biographies
• Poetry

• Anthology
• Contemporary Australia
• Essays
• Female experience
• feminism
• Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender
• Fiction
• identity
• Performance
• Poetry
• Writing

• feminism
• Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender
• History
• Pictures
• Poetry
• Songs
• Theatre
• Women's Studies

• Aboriginal
• Australia
• Australian
• Cartoons
• Essays
• feminism
• Feminism/Patriarchy/Gender
• Gender
• Interviews
• Journal
• Liberation
• Patriarchy
• Poetry
• Prisons
• women
• Women in Prisons
• Women's Studies

• feminism
• feminist poetry
• lesbian poetry
• poems
• Poetry
• Women of Colour Feminism

• Poetry
• Prison Writings
• Prisoner's Rights/Prisons