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Details

Additional authors

1. Coval, Kevin
2. Lansana, Quraysh Ali
3. Marshall, Nate

Description

1. xxii, 350 pages : portraits; 23 cm

Summary

1. "This is the first anthology of poems by and for the hip-hop generation . . . It includes more than four decades of poets and covers the birth to the now of hip-hop culture and music and style"--page xv.

Subject

1. American poetry > 20th century
2. Hip-hop > Influence > Poetry
3. American poetry > 21st century
4. American poetry > African American authors

Contents

1. An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961) -- Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) -- An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Thoas Sayers Ellis (1963) -- Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964) -- Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Evie Shockley (1965) -- Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Tony Medina (1966) -- Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Willie Perdomo (1967) -- Agate / Mario (1967) -- Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast - how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Roger Bonair-Agard (1968) -- Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / Lynne Procope (1969) -- B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Patrick Rosal (1969) -- Untitled / Tracie Morris -- America's pastime / Jason Carney (1970) -- Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby -- / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) -- Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970) -- Beat boxing ; Robot music / Adrian Matejka (1971) -- mic check, 1-2 / Jessica Care Moore (1971) -- Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / John Murillo (1971) -- Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / Francine J. Harris (1972) -- How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / T'ai Freedom Ford (1973) -- Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / Suheir Hammad (1973) -- The world tells how the world ends ; Object / McConnell (1973) -- Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / John Rodriguez (1973-2013) -- Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973) -- Hip hop analogies ; Switch / Tara Betts (1974) -- From all convulsions / Paolo Javier (1974) -- Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / Douglas Kearney (1974) -- A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / Avery R. Young (1974) -- The future / Lemon Andersen (1975) -- The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / Michael Cirelli (1975) -- The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Kevin Coval (1975) -- Motherland / Jericho Brown (1976) -- When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Mahogany L Browne (1976) -- Elegy in gold ; Break / Aracelis Girmay (1977) -- Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Idris Goodwin (1977) -- Corners / Enzo Silon Surin (1977) -- It's just begun / Mayda Del Valle (1978) -- Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / Denizen Kane (1978) -- I have a drone / Paul Martinez Pompa -- Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / Kyle Dargan (1980) -- 100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Tarfia Faizullah (1980) -- Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Samantha Thornhill (1980) -- Harbor / Aleshea Harris (1981) -- Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982) -- Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982) -- Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984) -- Small poems for big / Adam Falkner (1984) -- Stakes is high ; When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Marcus Wicker (1984) -- Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / Michael Mlekoday (1985) -- To the notebook kid / Kristiana Colon (1986) -- In search of black birds / Ciara Miller (1987) -- Let me handle my business, damn / Morgan Parker (1987) -- When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / Joshua Bennett (1988) -- When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Alysia Nicole Harris (1988) -- Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988) -- Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Angel Nafis (1988) -- Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / Jose Olivarez (1988) -- No country for black boys / Joy Priest (1988) -- Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / Ocean Vuong (1988) -- When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar (1989) -- Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / Franny Choi (1989) -- On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Nate Marshall (1989) -- Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Aaron Samuels (1989) -- Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Danez Smith (1989) werk (v.) -- Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods (1989) -- What the eyes saw / Benjamin Alfara (1990) -- A suite for ol' dirty Safia Elhillo (1990) -- Juicy (an erasure / Aziza Barnes (1992) -- Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Camonghne Felix (1992) -- Beat writers / Steven Willis (1992) -- Four elements of ghostdance / Reed Bobroff (1993) -- Grand slam / Malcolm London (1993) -- This, here / Kush Thompson (1994) -- My niece's hip-hop / E'mon McGee (1996) -- Murder is my name / Angel Pantoja (1997) -- Lesson one / Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999) -- Ars poeticas & essays. -- Art. artifice, & artifact / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Artist statement / T'ai Freedom Ford -- Artist statement / Michael Mlekoday -- Artist statement / Douglas Kearney -- Artist statement / Angel Nafis -- A locus of control and the erasure / Aziza Barnes -- Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Tara Betts -- Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / Roger Bonair-Agard -- The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Patrick Rosal -- Blueprint for breakbeat writing / Nate Marshall.

Call number

1. Sc E 15-458

Title

1. The Breakbeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop / Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, & Nate Marshall, editors.

Publisher

1. Chicago : Haymarket Books, [2015]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Coval, Kevin, editor.
2. Lansana, Quraysh Ali, editor.
3. Marshall, Nate, editor.

ISBN

1. 9781608463954
2. 1608463958

Research call number

1. Sc E 15-458