The Life in Between: poems/poemas

Combining the D.I.Y. philosophy of punk rock with the tongue-in-cheek irreverence of hip hop, Sasha Lee Alvarez's bilingual narrative plays out like a minstrel's wordplay confessional. With poems running the gamut from ballads of addiction to odes on the violence of femininity, The Life in Between documents the sometimes brutal rites of passage into adulthood through the lens of love and all its lessons. With unflinching honesty, the author details her coming of age story through rhyme and metaphor with the fresh idealism of a new and unheard voice.