City on the Second Floor

Matt Sedillo

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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."

Book Details

Publisher: Flowersong Press
Publish Date: Jan 25th, 2022
Pages: 112
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.28in - 0.32lb
EAN: 9781953447890
Categories: • American - Hispanic & Latino• Subjects & Themes - General• Civil Rights

About the Author

Sedillo, Matt: - Matt Sedillo has been described as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle" by academics, poets, and journalists alike. He has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, and at over a hundred universities andcolleges, including the University of Cambridge and many others. He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019), which is currently being taught at California State University at Northridge and Monterey Bay, as well as at Mission College. His Three Act Poem structure has been taught as capstones of coursework at UCLAand Occidental College. His collection Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press 2019) is being taught in classrooms nationwide.

Praise for this book

Matt Sedillo brings poetic fire to the burn through the issues - avarice, mediocrity, lies, gentrification, labor, loneliness, class conflict and others - most officially-sanctioned "poets" ignore in the name of the ice cold fakery that calls itself "poetry" in the United States. Thankfully, Sedillo burns down

the house built out of the illusion of democracy, of the "literary". In this sense, he brings necessary fire.

- Roberto Lovato, Author of Unforgetting, A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas

Sedillo is the Carlos the Jackal of poetry.

- Geo Maher, Author of A World Without Police

Matt Sedillo is a poet during times of unveiling, when the source of what makes this country and world tick--and fall part--becomes revealed to millions.

- Luis Javier Rodriguez, Author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

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