Lateef McLeod writes some of most daring poetry I have seen. This is poetry that is finely crafted and, oh yes, clearly has something to say. The best poets, to be sure, have something to say, they are artist and philosophers.
Langston Hughes; Let America be America Again O, let America be America again--The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME
Now Lateef has been added to Langston Hughes' list of "the land where every man is free." He proclaims it all over this book.
Invisible Man, Revisited
I am the transparent mirage in your mind's eye./The image you want to hold, /but with time/will simply forget.
Lateef, you are not forgotten. -- John Peterson, Publisher, Poetic Matrix Press