Rappin' with ten thousand carabaos in the dark
By: poems by Al Robles
Edition: UCLA Asian American Studies Center 50th anniversary commemorative expanded edition / with a foreword by Tony Robles.
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780934052535
Other titles: Rapping with ten thousand carabaos in the dark
Description: "Originally released in 1996, this expanded edition of 'Rappin' With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark' brings new light to the works of Al Robles, with a foreword by Tony Robles and a classic essay from Amerasia Journal. The quintessential Pilipino American poet, storyteller, and co-founder of the Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco tells stories that span a century of Pilipino life in America. His poetry is inhabited by families, farm laborers, factory workers, Zen monks, pool sharks, cooks, children, lovers, preachers, young bloods, musicians, barbers and Buddhas"--