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Tough boy sonatas / Curtis L. Crisler ; illustrations by Floyd Cooper. |
| Authors: | Crisler, Curtis L. |
| Call number: | TEEN 811.6 CRI |
| Publisher: | Honesdale, Penn. : Wordsong, 2007. |
| Publication date: | 2007. |
| Subject: |
Poetry.
Teen literature. |
| Title: | Tough boy sonatas / Curtis L. Crisler ; illustrations by Floyd Cooper. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 86 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | Gary: Gary poem: (Chocolate city) -- In hell -- Hunger -- Confrontation -- Day dreamer -- Demographics -- Delaney Peacocks -- LaRoy -- Daughter/son soundtrack -- Girlfriend -- Pocket knife: (Game of Dare) -- Penitentiary -- Robbing hoods -- Son of a city: LaRoy and sister Sundays -- Black of gray -- Requiem in losing space -- Delaney -- Children of blues/Saturday night school -- Mamas -- Rooted -- Grandma -- Catch -- 38th letter to a man with no fame -- Fruit man -- Surroundings of LaRoy -- In our Venus -- Tough boy sonatas: Hypnotics -- Addiction -- Lifted -- Back tracks -- Ebonics -- Boys love words -- Stray -- Walking w/drama -- Burgers, homegrown -- Jivin' -- Dance of the ghetto fairies -- Tennis match -- Outside games. |
| Awards note: | Eliot Rosewater Award, 2008-2009, Nominee. |
| Added author: | Cooper, Floyd, ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781932425772 (alk. paper) 1932425772 (alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2006011836 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1118017 |
| Bib No.: | 1118017 |