Down South Poets, Volume 1 : The Dirty Collection

by Charles L. Peters and Kenneth C. Dillon

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891601091
• ISBN13: 9781891601095
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: C & K Collaboration Pub
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Mind consuming

I loved this book so much. I bought it in I believe 2001 and if I had known I could have written a review on it, I would have a long time ago. I had this book by my side forever, everywhere I went. The love poems were beutifully written,a s were the erotic ones. It is really difficult to put into words how much this book meant to me. My father sponsers a step-team that puts a black history show together every February. In 2002 he used the poem that I believe has a title that means unity as an open to his show. I just love the book and the fellas held it down and represented big time. Write some more so i can buy another one.

"Home Sweet Home"

The days of uniformed poetry, restricted by pentameters and accents, are indeed at risk. This trio of southern shakespears embrace the art of poetry, while at the same time tearing down it's walls of "formality". These young men have perfectly braided all the essential elements of, life, love, and lessons of the south in the form of a "written" spoken-word. They paint vivid portraits of the south, from Texas' sweat glossed women, through Louisiana's gumbo steamed kithens, all the way to Georgia's chalk covered sidewalks. The Dirty Collection, includes both stories of the south's deepest and darkest secrets, including a three part tribute to a lost child. on a brighter note, this collection also includes dreams of better days as well as the appreciation of the south's easy-going lifestyle. Their wisdom at such a young age coupled by their courage and sincerity to express it, will leave any reader amazed, anticipating their next release!!! From the backwoods' barefoot "boyz" to the urban streets' hip-hop boot wearing "men", this trio have fautlessly covered all acres of the "DIRTY SOUTH"!!! Getto Times Tribune-Junebug Slim Walker

"Finally"

At last someone has written a book for and about the South, so long have I awaited a poetry book that i could relate to and find some sort of substance about my own life and upbringing, and so to these three young poets i say thankyou, thankyou from the children, the women , the men , the south for rufusing to hide the issues that still live here in the south.