The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood

“Tough smart reckless heartfelt and overwhelmingly alive.” Junot Diaz “The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood is a collection of poems invaluable in confidences a wagon loaded with revealed secrets.” Manuel Madrid“Báez has honed a talent for turning conversant language into fiery rhetoric a mix of cool observations pop-cultural connoisseurship and crackling street smarts.” Michael Barron“Frank Báez’s language has the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and he has had to stay there without the cut that separates him from his cultural origin” Elidio La Torre Lagares“To venture into the poetry of Frank Báez (Santo Domingo 1978) is to dive into a tragicomic apparently autobiographical world of poems about a young islander who would most like to go out into the world and become an artist. The laid-back almost prose-driven rhythm is immediately striking and though at first it seems to be used almost randomly it provides the one constant amidst this Caribbean melancholy amplified yet more when Báez performs his own work.” Poetry International