Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me

By Brad Bathgate and Brad BLUE Bathgate

"Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me," is a book of poems,  Haikus,  jokes and random thoughts that has captured Harlem living completely and not once did the author loose street creditability. The author (BLUE) has taken the ugliness of the ghetto and brought humor and beauty to the everyday experiences on the streets. There is a new movement that needs to be acknowledged and his poetry is a big part of that...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brad Bathgate
• Release date: Sep 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9780971258143

Brad Bathgate

BLUE aka Brad Bathgate was born in Harlem, but raised as a military brat between New York, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Germany. Upon returning to the states from Germany as a teenager, he experienced culture shock and quickly developed a discerning eye, which lends to his writing today. Growing up during the early stages of Hip Hop, he has always been fascinated with words. However, it wasn’t until 1998, when he attended a poetry reading at the Sugar Shack, in Harlem when he found his calling and began to take writing seriously. After experiencing the other poet’s manipulation of words, Blue realized that writing was what he wanted to do, concluding there was no limit to what he could say or write, provided it was creative.

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