Books published by Brooklyn Arts Press

"Maldonado thrills with the contradictions in New York City life, where the people, in mourning over another victim of police brutality, can take over a plaza named to honor a colonizer; where the laundromat offers communion and the subway a site for Emersonian contemplation; where laying on your couch very well may be the ultimate act of resistance; where you could be a Central American Quaker in a Caribbean borough grooving to an Icelandic dance queen''s DJing. Spunk, grit, the real deal, that''s what you get here." -Mónica de la Torre

Gregory Crosby is our go-to poet for cinematic deep-dives, apocalyptic parables, hot takes on literary dustups, and lusty interludes of backlit longing. Said No One Ever collects a decades'' worth of breakneck verbal switchbacks and charged poetic insight-there is almost no subject pertinent to American culture that Crosby doesn''t square up. Here we are in the 21st Century, our lives balanced between myth and modernity, advertising and socializing, as Hollywood babbles on and our political scene skips through horrors like a creature feature on a busted reel-but still Crosby manages to plumb these depths without breaking stride or giving in, taking us on a memorable journey through art, language, history, and entertainment.