If In The Moment of Passing: Piri Thomas (1928-2011)
source: http://www.barnonegroup.com/2011/10/if-in-moment-of-passing-piri-thomas.html
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Poet Piri Thomas who was born and grew up in Spanish Harlem before it became romanticized in a song has died at the age of 83. Born Juan Pedro Tomás in 1928, Thomas rose to acclaim with his 1967 memoir, Down These Mean Streets. The book told the tale of how the son of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents not only survived the mean streets of Spanish Harlem and seven years of hard labor at Sing-Sing but how those events inspired him to become the man, the poet that he would become.
