Four Cities Professor Will Roscoe Beat poet Diane di Prima

Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her "letters

a master legislator

Not for the first time in their lives

that is free to grow

the Advanced Nurturing High School sets a cruel test--each class must choose one of their own members to be expelled

Four Cities Professor Will Roscoe Beat poet Diane di PrimaWandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boisterous