We live in an Islamophobic world, where Muslim people are constantly under attack, and must prove their innocence when they've not even committed a crime. We also live in a world of rigid gender roles and gender violence, where women, gender non-conforming and trans people are victims of violence, a
The breakbeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
β Scribed by Coval, Kevin;Lansana, Quraysh Ali;Marshall, Nate
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 747 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Chicago, IL
- ISBN
- 1608463958
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Kevin Coval is the author of Schtick, L-vis Lives: Racemusic Poems, Everyday People and the American Library Association ΒBook of the Year" Finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica. He is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Artistic Director at Young Chicago Authors, and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute.;Praise for for The BreakBeat Poets; Contents; Introduction; Randall Horton (1961); an (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand; Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962); Turning the Tables; Wednesday Poem; Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963); An Excerpt from Crank Shaped Notes; Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964); mascot; crack house; seventy-first & king drive; Evie Shockley (1965); duck, duck, redux; post-white; Tony Medina (1966); Everything You Wanted to Know about Hip Hop But Were Afraid to Be Hipped for Fear of Being Hopped; The Keepin' It Real Awards; Willie Perdomo (1967); Shit to Write About
β¦ Subjects
Hip-hop -- Influence
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