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The BreakBeat Poets

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

by Kevin Coval
Quraysh Ali Lansana
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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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    April 13, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781608464500
      • File size: 2585 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781608464500
      • File size: 2585 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      March 15, 2015
      Chicago poet Coval (Schtick, 2013), the founder of the largest teen poetry slam in the country, Louder than A Bomb, teams up with fellow Chicago hip-hop aficionados and poets Quraysh Ali Lansana (The Walmart Republic, 2014) and Nate Marshall to create the first definitive anthology of poems by poets who fuse together the aesthetic of hip-hop and the style of slam poetry with the written-word tradition. Coval and company have even coined a term to describe this group of more than 70 poets born between 1961 and 1999, The BreakBeat Poets. With a strong belief in social change through the arts, the editors trace the evolution of poetry in hip-hop culture and present multi-literate hip-hop centric voices that capture the vernacular of the times. Even as they attempt to narrow and define this vital genre, the refreshing plurality and range of the contributors expands the very concept of BreakBeat. Here are mainstays Tara Betts, Marty McConnell, Willie Perdomo, and Samantha Thornhill as well as newcomers Malcolm London, Ocean Vuong, and Jamila Woods, all powering this dynamic, groundbreaking, genre-merging volume.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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