Where a Nickel Costs a Dime Heath Rushing the Kabbalah

the Kabbalah

he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination

As our third child was on the way

" Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

What I never should have done was touch her

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime Heath Rushing the KabbalahWhere a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip hop rhythms and in your face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club where the hottest young poets are finding their fame. Willie Perdomo's poems, in the tradition of Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Ntozake Shange, meet at the intersection of the street and the academy. The world in these piercing and heartbreaking poems is Spanish Harlem, where night turns to day without sleep,