Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems

Patrick Rosal's Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive kicks off with old school-obsessed narratives (""To be To B-boy To lace shell-toe Adidas/ To say Word Kurtis Blow"") but takes his investigations of masculinity far into the neighborhood, elegizing friends and unknowns, contemplating group dynamics (""at this moment There isn't one who doesn't laugh"") and pondering ""the catalog of unloved/ gestures a woman lets no one read.""