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Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive book. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The debut collection from a vibrant, streetwise vo /5. Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive easily conjures the words of Eduardo Galeano, "Recordar: To remember; from the Latin re-cordis, to pass back through the heart." This text is a raw, passionate supplication and nod toward roots but resists being entrapped within the past or pandering to surface sentimentalism.3/5(3).

Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive easily conjures the words of Eduardo Galeano, "Recordar: To remember; from the Latin re-cordis, to pass back through the heart." This text is a raw, passionate supplication and nod toward roots but resists being entrapped within the past or pandering to surface sentimentalism.3/5.

Buy this book. Patrick Rosal's Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive kicks off with old school-obsessed narratives (""To be To B-boy To lace shell-toe. Praise for Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: "[A]n astonishing first collection Urgent, rhythmic (it has the swing without which it don't mean a thing), this is a passionate and elegiac book that claims a place of its own in American poetry's present and bodes well for American poetry's future." —Thomas Lux.

Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems (Paperback) By Patrick Rosal. $ Special Order. Description. The debut collection from a vibrant, streetwise voice: Winner of the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop.

Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Paperback) Poems. By Patrick Rosal. Persea Books,67pp. Publication Date: J ISBN: X OCLC Number: Notes: "A Karen & Michael Braziller Book." Description: 67 pages ; 21 cm: Contents: B-Boy Infinitives --Freddie --Nine Thousand Outlines --Lazarus --A Good Day --You Clubhouse Boys --The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles --Ritual from the Book of Mistakes --Citrus City --Linwood --Who Says the Eye.

Patrick Rosal's Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive kicks off with old school-obsessed narratives ("To be To B-boy To lace shell-toe Adidas/ To say Word Kurtis Blow") but takes his investigations of masculinity far into the neighborhood, elegizing friends and unknowns, contemplating group dynamics ("at this moment There isn't one who doesn't Pages: Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive Patrick Rosal.

Winner of the Members Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop Patrick Rosal’s poetry rings with the music of no-frills industrial towns of central New Jersey. Previously, Boneshepherds () was named a small press highlight by the National Book Critics Circle and a notable book by the Academy of American Poets.

He is also the author of My American Kundiman (), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (). His collections have also been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book.

Writing. Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: Brooklyn Antediluvian, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, all from Persea poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Notable awards: Guggenheim Fellow.

My American Kundiman Patrick Rosal, Author. Persea $ (65p) ISBN Filipino and Filipino-American traditions from which.

From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America. This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, Uprock Headspin Scramble andthough, the poet's electric narratives and portraits extend beyond the working class streets of urban New : Previously, Boneshepherds (Persea Books, ) was named a small press highlight by the National Book Critics Circle and a notable book by the Academy of American Poets.

He is also the author of My American Kundiman (Persea Books, ), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea Books, ). His collections have also been honored with the. 'Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive’ by Patrick Rosal Read Patrick Rosal — whom Philly can claim as one of its own — for his poems about getting into barfights with light-skinned Filipinos.

Read Rosal for his meditation on Los Angeles as a kind of afterlife for his : Juliana Feliciano Reyes. The title of the collection, “Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive,” refers to a sequence of breakdancing moves; Uprock was a highly stylized form of mock combat, a proxy for actual violence, where a dancer would lose if he accidentally touched his opponent.

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Patrick Rosal is the author of Boneshepherds, named one of the best small-press books of by the National Book Critics Circle, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive.

He has won, among other honors, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, the Global Filipino Literary Award, and the.

Get this from a library. My American Kundiman: poems. [Patrick Rosal; Global Filipino Literary Awards Collection (Library of Congress. Asian Division. Southeast Asia Team)] -- "This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive.

Here, though, the poet's electric narratives and portraits extend. From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America.

This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, "Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive," Here, though, the poet's electric narratives and portraits extend beyond the working class streets of urban New Jersey.

Modeling poems on the kundiman, a .His collections - which also include My American Kundiman (), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive () - have been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award, and the .Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems by Patrick Rosal: Member's Choice Award, Facts for Visitors: Poems (New California Poetry, 12) by Srikanth Reddy: Poetry, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta: Non-Fiction, The Temperature of This Water by Ishle Park: Member's Choice Award, World Famous Love Acts by.