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No Noose Is Good Noose

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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

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....

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.

I was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in the seventties and eighties and I can personally relate and dig everything Mr. Medina writes about. He speaks to the desires, angers, consciousness, and observations of those in my generation and beyond. Mr. Medina has skillfully shown how the experiences of those who are marginalized in urban areas in this country are in fact universal experiences. And when Mr. Medina moves from talking about oppression, class politics, racism, poverty, and global capitalism to more tender subjects like love and desire his tone and wording shifts appropriately and embraces you.