Description
Saints of Mary's Projects is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting a city's historical, personal, social, political, and cultural constructs birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by poetry, video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. In the Bronx, St. Mary's Housing project is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern-day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary's community. The Poet shares traumatic personal insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx.
Author: Alex Avila
Publisher: Ape Press
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781737705703
ISBN10: 1737705702
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Art | General
- Drama | General
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