The long-awaited full-length debut of Poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S. and The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs.
Chisme.
Chant.
Author of Rant. --Amalia Ortiz, HBO Def Poet and American Book Award Winner.
It is a declaration of hope that we will all win, that men can be trusted, and that San Francisco\'s poetic heartbeat is Still something worth believing in.
WE Still BE is part memoir, part call to action, and part cultural celebration.
Flores stakes his claim in Bay Area poetics writing with true intimacy, vulnerability, and radical love for his community.
Flores testifies to the importance of language, representation and equity, the hypocrisy of sham systems, and his personal journey to redefine masculinity with a responsibility to the younger generations. --Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus, winner of the Ruth Lily Prize, 2022, and Robert Frost Lifetime Achievement Medal, 2023 Poetry evangelist Paul S.
No book like this one in the last 50 years.
Flores is a master weaver, with a blazing kaleidoscopic lamp that reveals and embodies our lives.
Don\'t forget: Huey Newton, Lolita Lebrón, and José Feliciano in this salsa history bowl that will light you up all the way to feverish happiness.
He escorts us through the Bay Area, land of poets, artists, musicians, and muralists-he is part of that, he is all that-and we will be as we enter this world.
We never again will ask ourselves Who am I? Who are we? Flores is not afraid to speak of his wounds of familia-yes, he is intimate, he is loving.
It is a personal mambo, a face-to-face truth riffin\' us into a Spanglish mandala of hope, at last.
He swags us into the soul and soulfulness of our life-chapters and our plight in the USA.
Flores unlocks the hot key, the people\'s voice, and the Spanglish ritmoRhythm on how to write our story.
Paul S.
Flores.
The long-awaited full-length debut of Poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S
