No Noose Is Good Noose [Paperback]

Tony Medina (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: Writers & Readers (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 086316109X
• ISBN-13: 978-0863161094
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,905,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tony Medina is the author and editor of sixteen books for adults and young readers, including DeShawn Days (Lee & Low Books, 2001), Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Random House/Three Rivers Press, 2001), Love to Langston (Lee & Low Books, 2002), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art (Third World Press, 2002), Committed to Breathing (Third World Press, 2003), and Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids Who Never Got a Response (Just Us Books, 2003). Featured in the documentaries Nuyorc 1999; A Weigh with Words: An Inside Look At How Words Create Conflict or Compassion; and Furious Flower II: Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition: Roots & First Fruits/Cross-Pollination in the Diaspora/Blooming in the Whirlwind, Medina's poetry, fiction, and essays appear in over eighty publications and two CD compilations. An advisory editor for Hip Hop Speaks to Children, edited by Nikki Giovanni, his most recent work is featured in the anthologies Poets Against the Killing Field; Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones; Fingernails Across a Chalkboard: A Literary and Artistic View of HIV/AIDS Affecting People of Color, Full Moon on K Street; Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75; and Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS (Third World Press, 2010). Medina has taught English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and has earned an MA and PhD in English from Binghamton University, SUNY. Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University in Washington, DC, Medina's latest books are I and I, Bob Marley (Lee & Low Books, 2009), My Old Man Was Always on the Lam (NYQ Books, 2010) and Broke on Ice (Willow Books/Aquarius Press, 2011). Medina was most recently featured in interview on thebrownbookshelf.com's Black History Month 28 Days Campaign. His fiction and poetry are most recently featured in the anthologies 44 on 44: Forty-four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States (Third World Press, 2011), edited by Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez and Michael Simanga and the 2010 NAACP Award winner in Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems (Sourcebooks, 2010), edited by Nikki Giovanni. Medina's books The President Looks Like Me (Just Us Books, 2011) and An Onion of Wars (Third World Press, 2011) are forthcoming this fall.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Hitting and Honest, April 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: No Noose Is Good Noose (Paperback)

Medina's work packs an enormous amount of power and honesty. His work is not for the weak hearted. It is brave and in your face.
N. Mercado

2.0 out of 5 stars The Angry Young Man, February 17, 2002

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Erren (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Noose Is Good Noose (Paperback)

when i first started reading poetry, stuff like this used to impress me to no end. then as i read different kinds of stuff, i realized poetry was more than just attacking "the man," and telling people how much you hate america. medina's shtick gets old quick and i didn't bother to finish the book. i'm not a card carrying republican, but i've got other issues to deal with in my life....

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK, February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No Noose Is Good Noose (Paperback)

This book gives me inspiration. He tought me alot from his book. This book tells you how homless people are treated.If I liked this book, you should like it to.