"Urban Nightmares Silent Screams" is a radical story told through raw poetry and the camera's lens. It is a story full of questions about America, God, and life. Questions about war. Questions about poverty and what it means to grow up in urban America...

The photographs and articles document one man's journey, while the drawings were commissioned from youth and family throughout his community.

"Urban Nightmares Silent Screams" is a living example of using creative energy to discuss life's obstacles and spark movement towards a better world.

"Asheville activist DeWayne Bartons resume reads like a template of commitment to and
advocacy for his community, so its not surprising that when his alter ego BLove collects his
poetry together in the volume, Return to Burton Street, he produces a taut, jazzy,
hard-knuckled drumbeat of personal and historical indignation. Consumerist society,
colonialism, and still radically not post-racial America come in for some hard scrutiny.
The street style is suited to the direct urgency of the matter, low on trope, high on grit, a
known and necessary song sung to a familiar tune, all the better to...