Me, I'm a Pawn ©

Verse. This is the tenth anniversary re-issue of an outstanding volume. This poet, exceptional in this age in his depth and breadth of knowledge of classic poetic forms, emerged at a flashpoint in contempo-poetic culture, when Native-Tongue School hip-hop merged with the excesses and abuses of the poetry slam: sometimes in respect, sometimes mockery, sometimes defiance of traditional forms. Alex Jost was brilliant in navigating his way through the dynamic tensions of the poetic-literary moment, and this work is the path he nimbly blazed. Alex Frampton Jost