City on the Second Floor by Matt Sedillo
" I studied with Ginsberg, I drank with Bukowski, and now I’ve met the new master. run and hide, white boy, Sedillo writes with a switchblade. the best political poet alive — and everything is political"
- Greg Palast, author of How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters (Seven Stories Press, 2020)
"City on the Second Floor": Clarion call from a poetic craftsman | ROAR Magazine
Hailed by historians and journalists alike as the "best political poet in America" and "poet laureate of struggle", Sedillo returns with another instant classic. City on the Second Floor is a meditation on how the world we build and rebuild every day attacks us in so very many unexamined ways. As its pages reveal, "the city was built against us." Run don't walk and purchase your copy today!
Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director, and public intellectual called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. He has been featured in over 90 colleges and universities including the University of Cambridge, countless cultural institutions, including Casa De Las Americas. Sedillo has been various media outlets including the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, C-Span the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and various stations throughout the Pacifica Network.
He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona California and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass published by FlowerSong Press.
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