The Understudy's Handbook

<p><strong>This book helps me remember why I fell in love with poetry in the first place. -- Tim Seibles author of<em> Fast Animal.</em></strong></p><p>Drawing heat and music (and luscious food) from a New Orleans and Houston childhood Steven Leyva's poetry reveals a sensibility forged by a growing awareness of race and class: child's joy and bafflement a black Baltimore father's worry. These gorgeous poems sweep the reader as into a parade of memory sensation rhythm protest.</p>