Description
Kevin Anglade — known on stage as Kev Elev — is an NYC poet who writes the city the way it feels: loud, hard, beautiful, and alive. Life Comes From Concrete 1.5: The Fall Memoir (2016) is the second book in his Life Comes From Concrete series, and as the title suggests, it is not a continuation of the first edition but a deeper descent into the same streets, the same struggles, and the same hard-won hope. Part poetry, part memoir, this 109-page volume captures the grit and beauty of urban life from the inside. Anglade writes about falling — into poverty, into violence, into the traps that city streets set for young men — and about the stubborn resilience it takes to rise again. His verses and vignettes give voice to a world rarely given literary space: the stoops, the sirens, the dreams that refuse to die in the concrete. Published by Flowered Concrete, The Fall Memoir is a raw, rhythmic testament to survival.
What gives this short book its power is its voice. Anglade writes as a spoken-word poet, so the lines carry rhythm even on the page — you can hear the city in them. The memoir does not explain the streets from the outside or offer easy lessons; it stays close to lived experience, moving between poems and short prose passages that build a portrait of a young man negotiating danger, loyalty, and ambition at once. Readers who come from that world will recognize it instantly; readers who do not will find a window into it that news reports and statistics never provide. At just over a hundred pages, it is a book you can finish in an evening and think about for much longer.
For readers who love spoken word, urban literature, and memoirs that pull no punches, this book shows how life — real, bruised, unbreakable life — comes from concrete. Find the ebook at a discounted price from Tellebook.
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