Handmade Memories: Poems & Essays, 1997 - 2011

"Guy is super energy, gets it done, cuts through, visionary."
-Bob Holman {rogue/poet}

Handmade Memories: Poems & Essays, 1997 - 2011 features selected work by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, co-author of Burning Down the House (Soft Skull, 2000); 1998 National Poetry Slam Champion (Nuyorican Poets Café); and founder of a little bit louder (now called louderARTS).

Handmade Memories
Breathless
Running Bases
Behind the Music
Prodigal Son
Sunday Mornings in the Kitchen with Gan’ganny
Mozer, Bethea and I
Bury Me in the Leaning Rest
Old New York Love Story
Daughter of the Revolution
latter-day saints
Party Like A Rock Star
Crazy White Devil
33-1/3 Revolutions Per Minute
I Am – Cryptogram
Fulano
Burning Down the House: True Story (Essay)
Unleashing Stories, Engaging Communities (Essay)

FROM THE AUTHOR: Several of the poems collected here have been previously published, mostly in the out-of-print Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's National Poetry Slam Champions (Soft Skull Press, 2000), while the two essays were originally published on my website, loudpoet.com. I hope you enjoy them, and either way, take a minute to let me know what you thought via a review. Thanks!