Description: Beautiful and Ugly Too is a firsthand account of life in the Crescent City told through poetry and essays.
Brief description: Chuck Perkins is a poet and former marine. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He's a product of the city's public school system. Afterward, he attended Xavier University of Louisiana, where he received a bachelor's degree in business. He's currently the owner of the performance venue Café Istanbul.
Review Quotes: "Chuck's long-overdue collection of the poetry he has been performing with force and passion on stages throughout the country makes no apologies. He is the stone and the butterfly raging against 'the soulless marriage of unfettered avarice and technology' and with equal force shouting out with 'optimistic eyes' the beauty he finds in the darkest corners of struggling existence, most especially his beloved New Orleans."--Marc Kelly Smith, poet, founder of the poetry slam movement in 1980s Chicago