New Poetry Collection from Jasen Sousa Now Available for Purchase
Jasen
Sousa’s new poetry collection, The
Underground Man, is now live and available for purchase in eBook format at
these fine retailers:
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The Underground Man, Poetry Collection
The Underground Man is the latest collection of poems by the
mysterious man known as Jasen Sousa. The
Underground Man chronicles Jasen’s journeys and observations while riding the
“T” in Boston, visiting peers in Billerica House of Corrections, and dissects
the solitude which sticks to Jasen’s ribs.
Jasen questions and contrasts the search for happiness in the city and
in the nature as he searches for his place in society. Jasen also takes on the persona of
captivating and bold characters who have come into his life. Jasen often operates in the shadows, here is
your chance to pull his deepest thoughts
into the light while examining your own reality.
Author
Jasen Sousa is a Boston native who spent his childhood and
teenage years being schooled on the streets of Somerville. Jasen graduated from Emerson College in
Boston, Massachusetts and completed his MFA at Pine Manor College, also located
in Boston. Jasen has worked extensively
with youth in the Boston area, homeless individuals, refugees from Latin
America, and currently teaches reading, writing, and literacy to adult learners
studying to acquire their high school diplomas.
Jasen has published an array of books and has taught, inspired,
motivated, and made guest appearances all around the globe sharing his
story.
Editor
Kalimah Mustafa is also a Boston native who currently
resides in Somerville, MA. She is an alumna of the MURAP Cohort for inclusive
research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and continues her
research on African American literature and the American Modernist literary
canon. In addition to serving as an editorial intern for the senior editor of
the scholarly journal Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Kalimah is
also the 2014 winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize for
her poem “slipping,” and the 2016 winner of the Chet Frederick Prize for her
short fiction thesis “In Loving Memory of Sand.”