num_pages: 376
description: A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.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.
language: English
title: The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
publisher: Haymarket Books