Jon Sands’ poetry is a wild ride through the tough, funny, and achingly human experience of trying to find yourself in New York City.
These poems pack up the contradictions of city life—the dreamers, the outsiders, the people chasing something they can’t quite name—and bring them along for the journey. Here, honesty and hilarity collide, fearlessly packing us in Sands' suitcase.
A thought-provoking collection about ambition, identity, and the New York state of mind.
White boy bike dodging traffic. White boy tickets to the mud fight.
Thought he was the only one wouldn’t get dirty.
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Jon Sands (he/him) is the author of It's Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019), a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, and author of The New Clean (Write Bloody).
