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The New Clean: By John Sans

Author: Jon Sands  

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Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, hes packed us in his suitcase. He represents an ever-changing population of those raised elsewhere who find themselves beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems inhabit their own contradictions, and exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.

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Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, hes packed us in his suitcase. He represents an ever-changing population of those raised elsewhere who find themselves beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems inhabit their own contradictions, and exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.

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Jon Sands is a high-stakes, honest poet of wild range. Sands possesses the remarkable ability to celebrate just as deeply as he mourns & whichever city he moves through in his poems ...one can be certain that there will be some singing. That's just what these poems do. - Aracelis Girmay, author Sands scours buses in Queens, faceless bullets, and a city full of "back talk" to find a place where we can all "fall madly in Jon," and we do. Always fresh, The New Clean is a poetics of triumph - Michael Cirelli, Executive Director of Urban Word-NYC Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, he's packed us in his suitcase. This book welcomes those beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.

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“Sands scours buses in Queens, faceless bullets, and a city full of "back talk”

Jon Sands is a high-stakes, honest poet of wild range. Sands possesses the remarkable ability to celebrate just as deeply as he mourns & whichever city he moves through in his poems ... one can be certain that there will be some singing. That's just what these poems do. - Aracelis Girmay, author " to find a place where we can all "fall madly in Jon," and we do. Always fresh, The New Clean is a poetics of triumph - Michael Cirelli, Executive Director of Urban Word-NYC

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About the Author

Jon Sands has been a professional teaching and performing arJon Sands has been a professional teaching and performing artist since 2007. He's a recipient of the 2009 NYC-LouderARTStist since 2007. He's a recipient of the 2009 NYC-LouderARTS fellowship grant, and has represented New York City multipl fellowship grant, and has represented New York City multiple times at the National Poetry Slam. He is the Director of Pe times at the National Poetry Slam. He is the Director of Poetry and Arts Education Programming at the Positive Health oetry and Arts Education Programming at the Positive Health

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Jon Sands has traveled into a ridiculous world, where nothing is too hilarious to not be honest, and nothing is too honest to not get you pregnant. Best of all, he's packed us in his suitcase. He represents an ever-changing population of those raised elsewhere who find themselves beckoned by the history, mystique, and magic-makers of New York City. These poems inhabit their own contradictions, and exquisitely navigate the many complicated sides of what it means to be alive.

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Product Details

Publisher
Write Bloody Publishing
Published
15th March 2011
Pages
108
ISBN
9781935904267

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