THE STREET. Poems, 64pp. A collection of forty poems, THE STREET is Ballantine's fifth book of poems, written while living in West Oakland during tumultuous times that included the months of Occupy Oakland. During those slender years, Oakland experienced great violence. These poems were written sometimes in response to that violence but also as an attempt to find a way through and around the turmoil by discovering small moments of tenderness and beauty...
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