BlackRoseCity - Softcover

Knowles II, Frederick-Douglass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1456729535 ISBN 13: 9781456729530

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2011

Synopsis

BlackRoseCity is a collection of poems exploring the underpinnings of interpersonal relationships in communities isolated by socio-political barriers and reflecting the memories of a city youth growing up in Norwich. The setting is the urban and suburban neighborhoods of Norwich, Connecticut. The citizens refer to it as Rose City, after its official flower. Through narrative snapshots, BlackRoseCity invites the reader to witness the lives of a small town's blossoming youth, as well as the imprisonment within a concrete garden of the town's adults, trapped in economic and psychological despair. The poems are seen through the eyes of a young boy nicknamed "Cabbage Head" who at the beginning of the larger narrative is eight years old. As the manuscript progresses, the poems reflect Cabbage Head's growth from an inquisitive child, into an experimental adolescent, eventually evolving into a knowledgeable young man.

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II (Yesod) is an international Poet-Educator-Activist involved in Community Education and the Performing Arts. His works have been featured in the Martin Luther King Jr. Anthology (Yale University Press), East Haddam Stage Company, the 13th Annual Acacia Group Conference at California State University, Folio- a Southern Connecticut State University literary magazine and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: AIDS Anthology by Third World Press. Fredrick-Douglass is currently an English teacher at Three Rivers Community College in BlackRoseCity where he infuses English Composition with social injustices such as AIDS, Poverty, and War.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1456729535
• ISBN 13: 9781456729530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88