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By: Neil J. Smith

On the Ropes

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“Your book—colossal power, sharp, spot-on writing. Issues of rape and fratricide are explored with the dialectical seriousness that echoes Old Testament and Dostoyevsky. You break through the ‘cool’ that infects our modern world and show the human soul in deepest wrestling with itself.”

— William Packard, late poet, editor, professor, playwright, and writer

Born in the Bahamas but raised in four of the five New York boroughs, excluding the Bronx, from age seven onwards, Neil J. Smith was the fifth child of ten children. He says “I was ill-educated in as many schools” and did not receive an education until he discovered the library system. He started boxing at the age of 12 and went on to win various amateur awards for the next 12 years, including the All Army Champion. He organized for various civil rights groups, the 5th Avenue Peace Parade Committee, and finally The Black Panther Party. After that sojourn, Neil studied creative writing, literature, and poetry at NYU with William Packard, author, editor, professor, and founder of the prestigious New York Quarterly, where Neil was vice president for 15 years. He now lives upstate with his wife where he continues to write.
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  • Awbrey Allen Collins

    When you felt New York was a power vacuum for black culture, let this book be the game changer! The F.B.I. closes on Martin Luther King's Assassin, a turnstile background on the jungle of society. Filled with the character assassinations that seem to flood from Vietnam during the sixties. The time period's cultural depression reveals a fight, historic bondage in this societal case, marking the vice and 'gyre' of a character meant to lose it all. Social reform from a historically correct, comedian style language of poetry; what irks us as a society, a tale from the perceptions of a conscientious objector.

  • Marking Time by Maria Darnoult

    I have read the previous three books and loved them but this is the best one, yet, it's fast-moving and well-paced The author writes in a way that makes you feel like you living life with these people and you know them well, the range of characters is wonderful, good people and bad people, cruel people the whole range of human personalities is in this book, the way it is written draws you into each and every person's story and leaves you wanting more. There are twists and turns on every page and the story covers the whole island ...if I didn’t live here I would want to visit just to see the places mentioned as they are described beautifully if there is anything wrong with this book it’s the fact that I ran out of words to read ......some books you don’t ever want to end and this is one of them, I can’t wait to see if there is apart five Liz Neeson

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