The Author: Grew-up in and around Brooklyn, Queens, Manhatten and the Bronx. It usually doesn't work that way. You pick a burough and claim, 'that's how its suppose to go'. But some of us grew-up on the 'A' train. What it reads like: 'Willie Perdomo, Suheir Hammad, a lot of West-Indian Dancehall, and Big Pun; mixed in a blender'