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The Black Boy's Escape Guide (Large Print Edition)
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Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Rodney V Solomon, Jr.
Published: Jun 12 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the tradition of James Baldwin and Langston Hughes, Rodney Solomon emerges as a vital new voice in American poetry.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, during the Reagan era, Brooklyn resident Rodney Solomon witnessed firsthand the complexities of Black boyhood in the South during the 1980s and 1990s.
The Black Boy's Escape Guide is both a roadmap and a sanctuary. These verses pulse with the rhythm of a soul who has moved through every space-sacred and secular, corporate and street-carrying the weight of history while carving out room to breathe.
Solomon's work captures the duality of Black existence in America: the simultaneous need to navigate hostile systems while preserving the inner light that sustains us. His poetry speaks to anyone who has ever felt caught between worlds, offering not just escape routes but the radical possibility of transformation.
Rodney has been among you. Reared by a Korean War veteran and a Sears factory line worker, he's gone from collecting cans with his grandfather to the Fortune 500. Read his works-they'll show you all the dimensions of the world around you and in you, too.
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