I AM ALIVE IN LOS ANGELES! - Softcover

Sonksen, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595395201 ISBN 13: 9780595395200

Verlag: iUniverse, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Being alive in Los Angeles means driving It means having friends in a hundred neighborhoods. Everyday I figure 8 my way through the blood & bones of the city. These journeys invigorate me. Connecting the dots is what I like to do, from the hilltop parties to the Watts Towers, North Long Beach to Frogtown, there's o much flavor-landscape & characters. I love it all.I Am ALIVE IN LOS ANGELES!In this progressive collection of poems. Essays & notes, Mike the PoeT digs into the real Los Angeles. Passages of charged prose & poetic snapshots capture the panorama of the city of angels. Pieces cover the mythical afterhour parties, unique architecture, socioeconomics, graffiti, gangs Hollywood & more. Poet Journalist Historian, Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT has performed at the L.A. Times Book Prizes, Divine Forces Radio, Music Plus TV & published hundreds of poems & articles in the LA. Citybeat, O,C. Weekly, Jointz, Kotori & so on."It's easy to target Los Angeles' deficits: flashiness, venality, gross disparity of wealth. But is takes rare understanding and eloquence to see this fair city in all its lights, both good and bad. Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, achieves that unusual feat with his debut spoken-word release, "I Am Alive in Los Angeles!" A third-generation L.A. native Sonksen has special insight into the multi-textured realities that comprise the city."-L.A. Alternative Press"Mike the Poet the most cool, positive guy in poetry, future LA legend you read it here first."-TEKA LARK LO

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0595395201
• ISBN 13: 9780595395200
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland