Drawing heat and music (and luscious food) from a New Orleans and Houston childhood, Steven Leyva\'s poetry reveals a sensibility forged by a growing awareness of race and class: child\'s joy and bafflement, a black Baltimore father\'s worry.
These gorgeous Poems sweep the reader as into a parade, of memory, sensation, rhythm, protest..
Drawing heat and music (and luscious food) from a New Orleans and Houston childhood, Steven Leyva\'s poetry reveals a sensibility forged by a growing awareness of race and class: child\'s joy and bafflement, a black Baltimore father\'s worry