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Roger Bonair-Agard, a veteran of the spoken-word scene and a two-time National Slam Champion, reads many of his poems from Tarnish and Masquerade, featuring a live reading in Munich, Germany. His poems chart an exile's coming-of-age and an increasingly relevant immigrant's experience. Whether occur Trinidad, Washington Heights, Texas, Brooklyn, or other less-fixed locales, these poems written (and spoken) with equal parts joy and fury are full of clarity, compassion and unsentimentality.Poems include:
- "cane brulee"
- "chantuel hymns"
- "The devil in music"
- "Bullet Points"
- "1981"
- "The mandate"
- "photo graph"
- "1986"
- "Bird Watching"
- "weusi alphabet"
- "song for trent lott"
- "truth applies for a green card"
- "the sadness of migration"
- "blue sex prodigy"
- "weusi alphabeti" (live reading in Munich, Germany)
- "in the same breath as my father" (live reading in Munich, Germany)
- "how the ghetto loves us back" (live reading in Munich, Germany)
- "love rev 2" (live reading in Munich, Germany)
- "naming and other Christian things" (live reading in Munich, Germany)
