First-person narrative from a Jersey poet offers intimate, authentic voices for readers
Explores themes of friendship, family, aging, and gentrification to provide social context
Collective poems and prose reveal unexpected drama, pathos, and humor in everyday Jersey life
Pugnacious, colloquial language and local histories celebrate the working-class community
Publication by CavanKerry Press, known for literary and diverse voices
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The Jersey Slide is a pugnacious, colloquial, irreverent, and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification. Recounting tall tales and in-jokes, local histories and family sagas, the poems in this book sidle up to you like a loquacious drunk at your local dive, revealing unexpected drama, pathos, and
