City on the Second Floor - by Matt Sedillo (Paperback)

About the Book

City on the Second Floor is a meditation on how the world we build and rebuild every day attacks us in so very many unexamined ways. As its pages reveal, "the city was built against us."

Book Synopsis

Hailed by historians and journalists alike as the "best political poet in America" and "poet laureate of struggle", Sedillo returns with another instant classic. City on the Second Floor is a meditation on how the world we build and rebuild every day attacks us in so very many unexamined ways. As its pages reveal, "the city was built against us."

Review Quotes

Matt Sedillo brings poetic fire to the burn through the issues - avarice, mediocrity, lies, gentrification, labor, loneliness, class conflict and others - most officially-sanctioned "poets" ignore in the name of the ice cold fakery that calls itself "poetry" in the United States. Thankfully, Sedillo burns down

the house built out of the illusion of democracy, of the "literary". In this sense, he brings necessary fire.

- Roberto Lovato, Author of Unforgetting, A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas

Sedillo is the Carlos the Jackal of poetry.

- Geo Maher, Author of A World Without Police

Matt Sedillo is a poet during times of unveiling, when the source of what makes this country and world tick--and fall part--becomes revealed to millions.

- Luis Javier Rodriguez, Author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

I studied with Ginsberg, I drank with Bukowski, and now I've met the new master. Run and hide, white boy, Sedillo writes with a switchblade. the best political poet alive - and everything is political.

- Greg Palast, Author of How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters