Lay Me Down to Sleep

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Don't be fooled by the title of Robert Storie Parris' </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lay Me Down to Sleep</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. This collection is a wake-up call: first for the poet himself and next for all who dare crack this book open. Inside you'll find fire hydrants bleeding onto Bronx blocks odes to a Harlem mortician and to starry-eyed mothers the sticky fumblings and triumphs of romance and the trials inherent to modern manhood. Scattered throughout the lively technicolor landscape of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lay Me Down to Sleep </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is an inescapable hope-communicated in hip-hop-style free verse religious allusion and Parris' unmistakably spirited voice. Allow the poet to prove to you that in the battle for selfhood you can become exquisite. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each one of us [is] uprooted then repotted / to grow even bigger.</em></p>