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"No decorator of the soul with "literary" images, James Tracy is a poet-activist whose every poement is designed to unite us with rage against injustice, and let's all have done with the system that exploits and degrades us."

Jack Hirschman
The Arcanes
San Francisco Poet Laureate
(2006)

Sparks and Codes

by James Tracy
Singing an extremist ideology of human decency, James Tracy lays claim to the legacy of poets of protest, knows when to whisper, and builds a lyrical home for all of us. He takes us from New Orleans to New York to Bay Area, on a whirlwind tour of the state of America. Tracy uses the word to celebrate the everyday heroes that the mainstream media has forgotten.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Tracy was born in Oakland California and is a long-time anti-poverty activist and organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tracy works as an Adult Education Instructor and has held employment as a Driver of delivery trucks, Teaching Assistant in Special Education Classrooms, and a Busboy. In addition to poetry, Tracy's articles have been published in such diverse places as Race, Poverty and the Environment and Maximum Rock and Roll.

Check out his "Partisan Blockhead" blog:
jamesrtracy.wordpress.com

3/7/2007
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