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New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Haymarket Books
April 2015
On Sale: April 13, 2015
352 pages
ISBN: 1608463958
EAN: 9781608463954
Kindle: B00VPPTOY2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry
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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