The Nuyorican Press is launching its new poetry series with Carlton T. Spiller’s "Scalding Heart", a book that explores the emotional sightline of pain, joy and a passion that pushes humanity to dare explore itself. The book walks us through a world of pain, the cancer of a loved one, the world of the body, the emotions and the worlds of social and spiritual responsibility.
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About the Author:
Carlton T. Spiller, is a poet and a performer. "Scalding Heart" is Spiller’s song to the beginning of the 21st Century. He has also been published in the world famous anthology Aloud, Live From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He has performed poetry throughout the world in such places as the Berlin Jazz Festival in Germany, the capitol building in Cuba, the United Nations, World Conference in Rome, Italy, Wolftrap in Washington, D.C. and other places throughout Europe and the United States. Spiller is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a major New York world cultural institution.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT "SCALDING HEART":

"Cyber space, heart and intelligence; Spiller’s book explores humanity in all its loose and startling passions. Scalding Heart reads like the road map of experience. It scolds and soothes. Here is a new American Voice for the ages."
– Miguel Algarin

"Carlton Spiller is still in the vineyards of his own realized revelation. His is a poetry still picking away at the detritus of the moment, its beauty as the act and the abrupt completion of his own mind . . . But there is a sometimes awesome near understanding of his own being, independent of the subjective disguise of daily American boobery. For this we say, you got it going, now stretch it out!"
– Amiri Baraka
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