Secret Asian Man [Paperback]

Nick Carbo (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Press (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882688244
• ISBN-13: 978-1882688241
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,942,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!, May 25, 2000

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This review is from: Secret Asian Man (Paperback)

I've just begun my first year in an MFA program in poetry and my teacher recommended I read this book and she was absolutely right that I would enjoy the poems in Secret Asian Man! In fact, it may have changed my life and I only wish I could write like this amazing poet. The main character Ang Tunay na Lalaki embodies the struggles many immigrants have gone through. In stanza after stanza, the imagination is wedded to pure expression. This book will inspire you!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A FUNNY AND THOROUGHLY ENGAGING COLLECTION, June 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Secret Asian Man (Paperback)

These poems read like a novel in verse--we see The Real Man arrive in New York, fall in love with the city, and then fall in love with a woman who's just as quirky and complex as he is. This read is indeed a trip through the streets of NYC in the bohemian sense as seen through the fresh eyes of an outsider among outsiders. Nick Carbo's self-referential poem was risky, but he pulled it off. There is an experimental/metaphysical dialogue happening here that blows me away--you'll have to read the book to find out what it is. Highly recommend.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Subversiveness, the fun way, June 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Secret Asian Man (Paperback)

A funny onion of a book. A multi-layered approach to writing *in opposition*, whether it's in opposition to cultural sources of oppression or literary dominant aesthetics. The collection is dedicated to Joseph Ileto, the Filipino-American postman murdered by a white supremacist simply because the murderer saw a stranger with a brown skin, yet Nick Carbo takes a non-heavy handed approach in skewering racism, making his poems all the more effective.

"Sally" (a female character in the book) -- if you don't treat Secret Asian Man well, I'll forego feminist sisterhood and go after him for myself. Anyone writing like Nick Carbo has got to be good in bed.