BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina, who articulates Broke's erratic experiences on the streets of AnyCity, USA. With razor-sharp scatological whimsy, Medina's iconic ironic existential everyman - Broke - bears witness to the plight of homelessness from his curbside porch, torching the capitalist system and its myriad societal contradictions. ! rough tall tales, anecdotes, rants and jokes, Medina portrays Broke's anger, fear, humility and resolve that conveys his marginalization in a grossly unaccommodating society. Funny and perversely sharp, whimsical and impassioned, BROKE BAROQUE is compulsively readable and will connect with fiction and poetry lovers alike. Introduction by Ishmael Reed, Cover Art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, 1982.

TONY MEDINA, two-time winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, is the author/editor of sixteen books for adults and young readers, including I and I, Bob Marley, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam, Broke on Ice, An Onion of Wars, and The President Looks Like Me and Other Poems. Medina's poetry, essays and fiction appear in numerous publications. The first Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, in 2013 Medina was awarded both The Langston Hughes Society Award and the first African Voices Literary Award.