An Onion of Wars

Tony Medina's latest collection of poetry is satirical and surprising commentary on contemporary issues facing young and old alike. His mastery of language, imagery, conversation, and voice permeates each and every selection within this 100-plus page volume. The Caribbean writer and novelist Jan Carew shares the following: The poetry . . . is complex. It strips the street to its simplest common denominator of survival and tears off layer upon layer of stark realism.

Author: Tony Medina
Publisher: Third World Press
Published: 04/28/2012
Pages: 125
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780883783306
About the Author
Tony Medina has spent much of his adult life living in Harlem. The author/editor of sixteen books for adults and young readers, Medina is a two-time winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People for DeShawn Days (2001) and I and I, Bob Marley (2009). His anthology, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year (2001). His poetry, fic-tion, and essays appear in more than ninety anthologies and publications, and he is the author and editor of two previous Third World Press titles, Committed to Breathing (2003) and Role Call (2002).