THE UNFOLDING: EVOLUTION OF THE APEX PREDATOR: Autobiographical poems and short essays of a former gangster.

THE UNFOLDING:EVOLUTION OF THE APEX PREDATOR is Pertelle Gilmores' provocative narrative poetry of coming-of-age in the ferocious streets of the inner city during Americas crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980's and 90's. In this cleverly delivered memoir Pertelle chronicles his pilgrimage from naive child to peerless predator, revealing the details that fashioned him into debatably the most prolific and ruthless gangster of his era. He makes an arresting trek back into the tempest of violence, compulsion, struggle and destruction while extending an insiders canvass to everyone pursuing insight into the thoughts of a certified gangster. Through his lyrical and captivatingly graceful poems we become acquainted with his afflictions and despair. He summons an extensive scope of feelings from depression to fulfillment to a devout yearning for change. The sole feeling truant is regret. And it is with this regretless serenity that Pertelle shares not just his own evolving thoughts of survival but he expertly discloses the collective mind of Gen X's marginalized black males as well.

Sharp-wittedly written with richly adorned observations Pertelle gives us a chilling portrait of the traumatic world he not only survived but conquered. Its essential reading for anyone with a desire to truly understand the Black experience in The United States. This engrossing masterpiece will surely stand as a modern classic.