If you listen closely, every poem on Bao’s CD is a love poem: rough-edged, raw, and scalding, or quiet enough to break your heart. Much will be said about his fearless politics and his power, but his words are also threaded with humor, humanity, and beauty – my brother is on a mission to keep us all knit tight, and to remind us how we are quilted together in this cold country. Buy this CD. It will keep you warm at night.

- Ishle Park, Def Poetry Jam star and Poet Laureate of Queens, NY