Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Language: English
Published by Gotham Books, New York, NY, 2012
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed "To Ant" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket and book have bumping the cap and heel of the spine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 286 p. Audience: General/trade. A memoir by the poet and actor " Inside Man", "Red Dead Redemption"). Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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- Title
- Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Gomez, Carlos Andres
- Publisher
- Gotham Books, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1592407781
- ISBN 13
- 9781592407781
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Inspired by the award-winning poet and actors acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that reimagines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male.
Award-winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez is a supremely gifted storyteller with a captivating voice whose power resonates equally on the live stage and on the page. In one of his most moving spoken-word poems, Gómez recounts a confrontation he once had after accidentally bumping into another man at a club. Just as they were about to fight, Gómez experienced an unexplainable surge of emotion that made his eyes well up with tears. Everyone at the scene jumped back, as if crying, or showing vulnerability, was the most insane thing that Gómez could possibly have done.
Like many men in our society, Gómez grew up believing that he had to be ready to fight at all times, treat women as objects, and close off his emotional self. It wasnt until he discovered acting that he began to see the true cost of squelching ones emotions?and how aggression dominates everything that young males are taught.
Statistics on graduation rates, employment, and teen and young-adult suicide make it clear that the young males in our society are at a crisis point, but Gómez seeks to reverse these ominous trends by sharing the lessons that he has learned. Like Hill Harpers Letters to a Young Brother, Man Up will be an agent for positive change, galvanizing men?but also mothers, girlfriends, wives, and sisters?to rethink and reimagine the way all men interact with women, deal with violence, handle fear, and express emotion.
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About the Author
Carlos Andrés Gómez is an award-winning poet, actor, and writer. A former social worker in Harlem and the south Bronx and a former public school teacher in Philadelphia and Manhattan, Gomez has performed at over 200 colleges and universities and has toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, he is a two-time International Poetry Slam Champion and two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist. He appeared on HBOs Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and co-starred in Spike Lees film Inside Man alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen.
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