The BreakBeat Poets New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

Other author Coval, Kevin Editor
Other author Lansana, Quraysh Ali Editor
Other author Marshall, Nate Editor
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : Haymarket Books Minneapolis : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [Distributor]
Description352 p. ill 21.000 x 013.100 cm.
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Subjects
Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author)

Summary Annotation Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. "The BreakBeat Poets" features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters."The BreakBeat Poets" is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.
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ISBN9781608463954
ISBN1608463958 (Trade Paper) Active Record
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