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The BreakBeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Kevin Coval : 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
Thoas 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 where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards
Willie Perdomo (1967) : Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know
Mario (1967) : Agate
Roger Bonair-Agard (1968) : 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
Lynne Procope (1969) : Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night
Patrick Rosal (1969) : B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players
Tracie Morris : Untitled
Jason Carney (1970) : America's pastime
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) : Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby
Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970) : Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note
Adrian Matejka (1971) : Beat boxing ; Robot music
Jessica Care Moore (1971) : mic check, 1-2
John Murillo (1971) : Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk
Francine J. Harris (1972) : Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test
T'ai Freedom Ford (1973) : How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye)
Suheir Hammad (1973) : Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo)
Marty McConnell (1973) : The world tells how the world ends ; Object
John Rodriguez (1973-2013) : Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973) : Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka)
Tara Betts (1974) : Hip hop analogies ; Switch
Paolo Javier (1974) : From all convulsions
Douglas Kearney (1974) : Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus
Avery R. Young (1974) : A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk
Lemon Andersen (1975) : The future
Michael Cirelli (1975) : The message ; Astronomy (8th light)
Kevin Coval (1975) : The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block
Jericho Brown (1976) : Motherland
Mahogany L Browne (1976) : When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of basquiat ; nameless
Aracelis Girmay (1977) : Elegy in gold ; Break
Idris Goodwin (1977) : Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks
Enzo Silon Surin (1977) : Corners
Mayda Del Valle (1978) : It's just begun
Denizen Kane (1978) : Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1
Paul Martinez Pompa : I have a drone
Kyle Dargan (1980) : Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P.
Tarfia Faizullah (1980) : 100 bells : Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky
Samantha Thornhill (1980) : Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale
Aleshea Harris (1981) : Harbor
Jacob Saenz (1982) : Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!')
Nadia Sulayman (1982) : Bint ibrahim
Sarah Blake (1984) : Ha ha hum ; Adventures
Adam Falkner (1984) Small poems for big
Marcus Wicker (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
Michael Mlekoday (1985) : Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy
Kristiana Colon (1986) : To the notebook kid
Ciara Miller (1987) : In search of black birds
Morgan Parker (1987) : Let me handle my business, damn
Joshua Bennett (1988) : When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger
Alysia Nicole Harris (1988) : When I put my hands in the air it's praise
Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988) : Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk
Angel Nafis (1988) : Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity
Jose Olivarez (1988) : Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court
Joy Priest (1988) : No country for black boys
Ocean Vuong (1988) : Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread
Fatimah Asghar (1989) : 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
Franny Choi (1989) : Pussy monster ; Impulse buy
Nate Marshall (1989) : On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers ; Juke
Aaron Samuels (1989) : Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob
Danez Smith (1989) : Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America
Jamila Woods (1989) : Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens
Benjamin Alfara (1990) : What the eyes saw
Safia Elhillo (1990) : A suite for ol' dirty
Aziza Barnes (1992) : Juicy (an erasure)
Camonghne Felix (1992) : Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police
Steven Willis (1992) : Beat writers
Reed Bobroff (1993) : Four elements of ghostdance
Malcolm London (1993) : Grand slam
Kush Thompson (1994) : This, here
E'mon McGee (1996) : My niece's hip-hop
Angel Pantoja (1997) : Murder is my name
Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999) : Lesson one
Ars poeticas & essays
Quraysh Ali Lansana : Art, artiface, & artifact
T'ai Freedom Ford : Artist statement
Michael Mlekoday : Artist statement
Douglas Kearney : Artist statement
Angel Nafis : Artist statement
Aziza Barnes : A locus of control and the erasure
Tara Betts : Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende
roger Bonair-Agard : Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage
Patrick Rosal : The art of the mistake : Some notes on breaking as making
Nate Marshall : Blueprint for breakbeat writing
Reprinted poems
Acknowledgments
Biographies.
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Contributors
Coval, Kevin editor of compilation
Lansana, Quraysh Ali editor of compilation
Marshall, Nate editor of compilation
Lansana, Quraysh Ali editor of compilation
Marshall, Nate editor of compilation
ISBN
9781608463954
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