Elmer Santiago

Poems from a Bronx Room Elmer Santiago

This collection of poetry is for the most part, an escape from teenage angst. I am a child of the failed Regan-nomics that the 80's produced. The failure of these policies carried over into the bitterness of a household that grew larger and wider, and quickly into the 90's. It was in the nineties that the bitterness of alienation, financial disappointment, and finding the will to survive became a focal point for a young man in the Bronx. These poems reflect the times in a Bronx room where one can only hope that all can change. That the bitterness that somehow engulfs you, can also save you. Poems from a Bronx room is an escape, the task of watching a father suffer in a quiet depression, lost love, my anger that was so common in the nineties with the youth of America. These poems remember an angry decade. Yes hope. It was all a young man who looked out the window ever had. This book I dedicate to the isolated and alienated of the nineties. For the generation in between. For those who still run from the nineties. This is for you.