Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's National Poetry Slam Champions

by Roger Bonair-Agard, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Lynne Procope

In the summer of 1998 they took the belt at the National Poetry Slam, the first team from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. These five New York poets stand at the vanguard of the slam movement, with verse that is passionate, tight, political and lucid.

Genres: Poetry

186 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2003

Reviews

[Satia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointing. The content is good but how it is presented is not. Even the best meal served on a pile of crap is not going to be appetizing. Read my full review here:

http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/01/bur...

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found myself reading this book out loud in my best slam poet voice. I had fun with this one.