Literanista
July 22, 2009
Poet Piri Thomas, author of Down These Mean Streets, uses creative expression to confront poverty, racism, violence and isolation.
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Down These Mean Streets:
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood.
Here was an unsparing document of Thomas’s plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery–a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop.
As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author’s voice.
Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
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I love that you posted this! I have watched this numerous times and it still moves me….it still pulls at the heart strings.
Thx!
I loved that book. I read it about 10 yrs ago when I was going through some of my own addictions and issues.
Unfortunatly I am unable to view the link you posted. Most likely it's due to a sensitive internet filter here at work. I was just wondering where the link is from and what is it about? Maybe I can look it up at another time.
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