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The Breakbeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop / Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall, editors.
"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.
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- ISBN: 1608463958
- ISBN: 9781608463954
- Physical Description: xxii, 350 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Chicago : Haymarket Books, [2015]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Precedes BreakBeat poets volume two: Black girl magic. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 and 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 part 1 ; Vigil part 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 and 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 (volume) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Danez Smith (1989) werk (volume) -- 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 and essays. -- Art. artifice, and 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. |
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| Subject: | American poetry > African American authors. American poetry > 20th century. American poetry > 21st century. Hip-hop > Influence > Poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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| 490 | 1 | . | ‡aThe BreakBeat Poets ; ‡vVolume 1 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tAn (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / ‡rRandall Horton ‡g(1961) -- ‡tTurning the tables ; ‡tWednesday poem / ‡rJoel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade ‡g(1962) -- ‡tAn excerpt from Crank shaped notes / ‡rThoas Sayers Ellis ‡g(1963) -- ‡tMascot ; ‡tCrack house ; ‡tSeventy-first and King Drive / ‡rQuraysh Ali Lansana ‡g(1964) -- ‡tDuck, duck, redux ; ‡tPost-white / ‡rEvie Shockley ‡g(1965) -- ‡tEverything you wanted to know about hip hop but where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; ‡tThe keepin' it real awards / ‡rTony Medina ‡g(1966) -- ‡tShit to write about ; ‡tWord to everything I love ; ‡tWriting about what you know / ‡rWillie Perdomo ‡g(1967) -- ‡tAgate / ‡rMario ‡g(1967) -- ‡tHonorific or black boy to black boy ; ‡tFast - how I knew ; ‡tIn defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / ‡rRoger Bonair-Agard ‡g(1968) -- ‡tShine (for Joe Bataan) ; ‡tAll night / ‡rLynne Procope ‡g(1969) -- ‡tB-boy infinitives ; ‡tKundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; ‡tA note to Thomas Alva ; ‡tOde to the cee-lo players / ‡rPatrick Rosal ‡g(1969) -- ‡tUntitled / ‡rTracie Morris -- ‡tAmerica's pastime / ‡rJason Carney ‡g(1970) -- ‡tWho you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; ‡tDamn right it's betta than yours ; ‡tGamin' gabby -- / ‡rLaTasha N. Nevada Diggs ‡g(1970) -- ‡tManifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; ‡tPreface to a twenty volume homicide note / ‡rMitchell L. H. Douglas ‡g(1970) -- ‡tBeat boxing ; ‡tRobot music / ‡rAdrian Matejka ‡g(1971) -- ‡tmic check, 1-2 / ‡rJessica Care Moore ‡g(1971) -- ‡tOde to the crossfader ; ‡t1989 ; ‡tRenegades of funk / ‡rJohn Murillo ‡g(1971) -- ‡tStitches ; ‡tPull down the earth ; ‡tThis is a test / ‡rFrancine J. Harris ‡g(1972) -- ‡tHow to get over (senior to freshman) ; ‡thow to get over (for my niggas) ; ‡thow to get over (for Kanye) / ‡rT'ai Freedom Ford ‡g(1973) -- ‡tBreak (rebirth) ; ‡tBreak (sister) ; ‡tBreak (embargo) / ‡rSuheir Hammad ‡g(1973) -- ‡tThe world tells how the world ends ; ‡tObject / ‡rMcConnell ‡g(1973) -- ‡tBronx bombers ; ‡tWhat I saw was not your funeral ; ‡tAt my best / ‡rJohn Rodriguez ‡g(1973-2013) -- ‡tPaper bag poems ; ‡tGlobal warming blues ; ‡tSunday ; ‡tPossible (for Amiri Baraka) / ‡rMariahadessa Ekere Tallie ‡g(1973) -- ‡tHip hop analogies ; ‡tSwitch / ‡rTara Betts ‡g(1974) -- ‡tFrom all convulsions / ‡rPaolo Javier ‡g(1974) -- ‡tQuantum spit ; ‡tNo homo ; ‡tDrop it like it's hottentot venus / ‡rDouglas Kearney ‡g(1974) -- ‡tA prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; ‡tAfter an artis(t) talk / ‡rAvery R. Young ‡g(1974) -- ‡tThe future / ‡rLemon Andersen ‡g(1975) -- ‡tThe message ; ‡tAstronomy (8th light) / ‡rMichael Cirelli ‡g(1975) -- ‡tThe crossover ; ‡tJewtown ; ‡tMolemen beat tapes ; ‡tWhite on the block / ‡rKevin Coval ‡g(1975) -- ‡tMotherland / ‡rJericho Brown ‡g(1976) -- ‡tWhen 12 play was on repeat ; ‡tUpon viewing the death of Basquiat ; ‡tnameless / ‡rMahogany L Browne ‡g(1976) -- ‡tElegy in gold ; ‡tBreak / ‡rAracelis Girmay ‡g(1977) -- ‡tSay my name ; ‡tOld ladies and dope boys ; ‡tThese are the breaks / ‡rIdris Goodwin ‡g(1977) -- ‡tCorners / ‡rEnzo Silon Surin ‡g(1977) -- ‡tIt's just begun / ‡rMayda Del Valle ‡g(1978) -- ‡tCiphers part 1 ; ‡tVigil part 1 / ‡rDenizen Kane ‡g(1978) -- ‡tI have a drone / ‡rPaul Martinez Pompa -- ‡tCrews ; ‡tSlang ; ‡tO.P.P. / ‡rKyle Dargan ‡g(1980) -- ‡t100 bells ; ‡tNocturne in need of a bitch ; ‡tBlossoms in the dark ; ‡tSelf-portrait as slinky / ‡rTarfia Faizullah ‡g(1980) -- ‡tElegy for a trojan ; ‡tOde to a star fig ; ‡tOde to gentrification ; ‡tOde to a killer whale / ‡rSamantha Thornhill ‡g(1980) -- ‡tHarbor / ‡rAleshea Harris ‡g(1981) -- ‡tEvolution of my block ; ‡tEvolution of my profile ; ‡tGTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / ‡rJacob Saenz ‡g(1982) -- ‡tBint ibrahim / ‡rNadia Sulayman ‡g(1982) -- ‡tHa ha hum ; ‡tAdventures / ‡rSarah Blake ‡g(1984) -- ‡tSmall poems for big / ‡rAdam Falkner ‡g(1984) -- ‡tStakes is high ; ‡tWhen I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; ‡tArs poetica in the mode of j-live ‡tBonita applebum / ‡rMarcus Wicker ‡g(1984) -- ‡tSelf portrait with gunshot vernacular ; ‡tSelf portrait from the other side ; ‡tThaumaturgy / ‡rMichael Mlekoday ‡g(1985) -- ‡tTo the notebook kid / ‡rKristiana Colon ‡g(1986) -- ‡tIn search of black birds / ‡rCiara Miller ‡g(1987) -- ‡tLet me handle my business, damn / ‡rMorgan Parker ‡g(1987) -- ‡tWhen asked about my hometown : an admission ; ‡tWhen asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; ‡tLove letter to Zack, the black power ranger / ‡rJoshua Bennett ‡g(1988) -- ‡tWhen I put my hands in the air it's praise / ‡rAlysia Nicole Harris ‡g(1988) -- ‡tWinthrop Ave. ; ‡tWe house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / ‡rBritteney Black Rose Kapri ‡g(1988) -- ‡tLegend ; ‡tGhazal for my sister ; ‡tConspiracy : A suite ; ‡tGravity / ‡rAngel Nafis ‡g(1988) -- ‡tOde to the first white girl I ever loved ; ‡tHome court / ‡rJose Olivarez ‡g(1988) -- ‡tNo country for black boys / ‡rJoy Priest ‡g(1988) -- ‡tAlways and forever ; ‡tSelf-portrait as exit wounds ; ‡tPrayer for the newly damned ; ‡tDaily bread / ‡rOcean Vuong ‡g(1988) -- ‡tWhen tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; ‡tUnemployment ; ‡tPluto shits on the universe / ‡rFatimah Asghar ‡g(1989) -- ‡tPussy monster ; ‡tImpulse buy / ‡rFranny Choi ‡g(1989) -- ‡tOn caskets ; ‡tPrelude ; ‡tPicking flowers; ‡tjuke / ‡rNate Marshall ‡g(1989) -- ‡tBroken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / ‡rAaron Samuels ‡g(1989) -- ‡tCue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; ‡tTwerk (volume) ; ‡tDinosaurs in the hood ; ‡tDear white America / ‡rDanez Smith ‡g(1989) werk (volume) -- ‡tDefense ; ‡tBlk girl art ; ‡tDeep in the homeroom of doom ; ‡tDaddy dozens / ‡rJamila Woods ‡g(1989) -- ‡tWhat the eyes saw / ‡rBenjamin Alfara ‡g(1990) -- ‡tA suite for ol' dirty ‡rSafia Elhillo ‡g(1990) -- ‡tJuicy (an erasure / ‡rAziza Barnes ‡g(1992) -- ‡tBadu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; ‡tPolice / ‡rCamonghne Felix ‡g(1992) -- ‡tBeat writers / ‡rSteven Willis ‡g(1992) -- ‡tFour elements of ghostdance / ‡rReed Bobroff ‡g(1993) -- ‡tGrand slam / ‡rMalcolm London ‡g(1993) -- ‡tThis, here / ‡rKush Thompson ‡g(1994) -- ‡tMy niece's hip-hop / ‡rE'mon McGee ‡g(1996) -- ‡tMurder is my name / ‡rAngel Pantoja ‡g(1997) -- ‡tLesson one / ‡rNile Lansana ‡g(1997) and ‡rOnam Lansana ‡g(1999) -- Ars poeticas and essays. -- ‡tArt. artifice, and artifact / ‡rQuraysh Ali Lansana -- ‡tArtist statement / ‡rT'ai Freedom Ford -- ‡tArtist statement / ‡rMichael Mlekoday -- ‡tArtist statement / Douglas Kearney -- Artist statement / ‡rAngel Nafis -- ‡tA locus of control and the erasure / ‡rAziza Barnes -- ‡tLife is good : How hip-hop channels duende / ‡rTara Betts -- ‡tJourneying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / ‡rRoger Bonair-Agard -- ‡tThe art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / ‡rPatrick Rosal -- ‡tBlueprint for breakbeat writing / ‡rNate Marshall. |
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