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The debut collection from a vibrant, streetwise voice: Winner of the 2002 Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop. Patrick Rosal's poetry rings with the music of no-frills industrial towns of central New Jersey. Portraits of hip-hoppers and condemned men (whose misdeeds as boys forever shaped their futures) alternate with dynamic riffs on longing--sexual and filial--and on the poet's Filipino roots. Unpredictable and breathtaking as a sax solo, these poems are the indelible marks made by a world that has been simultaneously kept close and left behind.

B-Boy Infinitives	p. 3
Freddie	p. 5
Nine Thousand Outlines	p. 6
Lazarus	p. 8
A Good Day	p. 9
You Clubhouse Boys	p. 11
The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles	p. 13
Ritual from the Book of Mistakes	p. 15
Citrus City	p. 17
Linwood	p. 19
Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry	p. 21
A Prayer at the Edge of the Map	p. 22
Ode to Edison, NJ	p. 23
The Smokedrift	p. 25
As I Read Etheridge Knight for the First Time	p. 28
Next	p. 30
Notes for the Unwritten Biography of My Father, an Ex-Priest	p. 35
Asbury Park, 1977	p. 38
Three Hours	p. 40
A Riff For My Mother	p. 41
30 June 2000	p. 42
The Overnight Ferry	p. 43
"My Mother is in Los Angeles"	p. 44
Uncommon Denominators	p. 46
Aiza	p. 48
The Ancient Baguio Dead	p. 50
A Song for Women	p. 52
The Basque Nose	p. 53
Litany of the Missing Cheekbone	p. 55
Igneous	p. 56
Be Reminded of Nothing	p. 57
Better	p. 59
Poem	p. 61
Pick-up Line Ending with a Prayer	p. 62
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