Let it be Broke

• Author(s): Edward Michael Pavlic,
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Pages: 120
• ISBN_10: 1945588454
  ISBN_13: 9781945588457
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Poetry / General , Poetry / American / General , Poetry / American / African American & Black , Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss ,

Description:... "Experiential poems located in an America that is both cross-racial and transracial. The poems in Ed Pavliâc's Let It Be Broke are ignited by sonic memories-from Chaka Khan on the radio to his teenaged daughter singing "Stay" at a local cafâe-that spark a journey into personal and ontological questions. Pavliâc's lyric lines are equal parts introspection and inter-spection, a term he coins for the shared rumination that encourages a collective "deep think" about the arbitrary boundaries that perpetuate racial and geographic segregation and the power of words to transcend those differences. In an epiphanic moment, Pavliâc recalls a quote shared by a former teacher as "a hammer made of written words," and how he held "onto those words / as if they were steel bars and I was dangling over some bright black deepness.""--