Every First & Fifteenth

by Dimitri Reyes, Gessy Alvarez (Series Editor), Cynthia Alvarez (Illustrator)

Situated in Newark, New Jersey's metropolitan landscape of multilingual communities, Reyes' narrator, a street corner bard guided by the spirits of urban artists, takes us on a journey of language alternations. Each poem is a negotiation between life on the streets and the joyful and sometimes perilous quest for self-discovery. Traversing the desires of wanting to fit in, to get something, to say something in secret -- Reyes' eclectic poetic forms embody the duende, the cri de coeur, the hand-to-mouth hustle of urban life.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published July 15, 2021

Reviews

[Nathan Tluchowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dimitri is the Paul McCartney to my Brian Wilson. He is one of the most important poetic voices of our age. Where the internet affords an over-saturation of poets, Reyes is a must read.