Alive and Paranoid

<p>With brilliant and poignant revolutionary poetry and photography from Georgia-based cultural worker journalist and organizer D. Musa Springer <em>Alive and Paranoid</em> the first book in Iskra's Red Poetry Series is available as both a low-cost black and white softcover edition and as a full-color resplendent hardcover.</p><p><br></p><p>This book was written in the hamster wheel in the sense that D. Musa Springer penned these poems not in leisure but in labor-in spite and because of the sleepless hustle Amerika demands. Such hustle-against the backdrop of a racist capitalist society-was only survivable because of the poet's own impulse for writing verse. [...] Springer's 'poetry of purpose ' is personal and incendiary it gloats and it weeps and most importantly it is not neatly-trimmed to fit within the borders of a sparkly billboard screen in Times Square. It is blunt and unconcerned with platitudes. <em>Alive and Paranoid</em> journeys through Atlanta Cuba dreamscapes of Palestine and the sonic values of hip-hop offering a kaleidoscopic look even a sense of liberty into Springer's life in the hamster wheel. </p><p>-Mohammed El-Kurd</p><p>From the Foreword to <em>Alive and Paranoid</em></p><p><br></p><p>For us <em>Alive and Paranoid i</em>s more than the artistic ramblings of a friend.It is hours and hours of ki kis criticisms and disagreements passed back and forth on WhatsApp and in person. In these pages you will find many reflections that Musa wrote live and direct from Havana Cuba where people have been struggling under the weight of 60-year-old economic sanctions placed on the county-with the intent to kill.</p><p>-Erica and Salifu</p><p>From the Foreword to <em>Alive and Paranoid</em></p>