Radiation Machine Gun Funk - Softcover

Smith, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944585540 ISBN 13: 9781944585549

Publisher: Word Works, 2023

Synopsis

Roger Smith asks: "How is cancer like racism?"

Fresh from the spoken-word tradition, Roger Smith investigates justice in the Black Lives Matter era, often seen through the lens of the cancer survivor. How to cure the cancers of our country? Smith takes up this challenge on every level: personal, familial, societal, spiritual.

About this title

About the Author

Roger Wyze Smith is a Brooklyn-born poet of Bajan heritage, raised in Queens, NY. A working-class, married father of three, Smith is the author of two self-published collections of poetry, Laundromats & Lounges (2013) and Chambers of a Beating Heart (2015). His third release French Kissed Black Roses (2015) won third place in the Local Gems NaPoWriMo chapbook contest. Smith was a 2012 Inspired Works Contest Winner, the 2017 Louis Armstrong House Archives Writer-in-Residence, and served as co-editor of poetry on Armstrong Literary Online Magazine 2018-2019. Smith holds a BA cum laude in English from Molloy College, an MFA in creative writing and literary translation from CUNY/Queens College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Word Works
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944585540
• ISBN 13: 9781944585549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138