Where a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip-hop rhythms and in-your-face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club Where the hottest young poets are finding their fame.
The world in these piercing and heartbreaking poems is Spanish Harlem, "Where night turns to day without sleep," Where "Pu.
Willie Perdomo\'s poems, in the tradition of Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Ntozake Shange, meet at the intersection of the street and the academy.
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip-hop rhythms and in-your-face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club Where the hottest young poets are finding their fame