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From a life of anger, violence, despair and resentment to one of commitment and renewal, Ghetto Plainsman is a searing journey of one of the Green Movement's most original voices at a time when the world is in crisis and heading into ecological collapse.

What they're saying about GHETTO PLAINSMAN

"This book shook me to the core. Manos’ voice is compelling and irresistible..." -- Elizabeth Merrick, author-editor of the acclaimed anthology, THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT

"Just as intense as any good hip-hop album... The nimble, brutal language that Manos uses to describe the hustlers and lost souls of New York and Los Angeles works equally well in capturing the delicate beauty of a yucca plant, a sunset along an impossible horizon or the mysterious animal life that populates his home. Not since Edward Abbey have I seen such an improbable writer so hopelessly in love with nature, and so gifted in describing its bounty." -- Paul Constant, Whole Life Times

"Like a modern-day John the Baptist emerging from the wilderness, he came — imploring us to repent of our sins against the land... The book is a sensitive, gritty, graphic and triumphant chronicle of one man’s remarkable journey from the depths of desperation, through the dark corridors of self-deprecation and denial to the majestic plateaus of self-assurance — discovered partly in the wide-open western plains where he has always found solace and refuge." -- Bob Ray Sanders, Vice President, Associate Editor, and Columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; award-winning member/National Association of Black Journalists

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