The BreakBeat poets
Subtitle: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
By: Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, & Nate Marshall, editors
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781608463954
Subjects: Hip-hop; Influence; Poetry; American poetry; African American authors
Other titles: Break Beat poets
Description: "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.
Notes: Adult Follett School Solutions.
Table of contents: title: Kevin Coval : Introduction; title: Randall Horton (1961) : An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand; title: Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) : Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem; title: Thoas Sayers Ellis (1963) : An excerpt from Crank shaped notes; title: Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964) : Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive; title: Evie Shockley (1965) : Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white; title: 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; title: Willie Perdomo (1967) : Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know; title: Mario (1967) : Agate; title: 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; title: Lynne Procope (1969) : Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night; title: 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; title: Tracie Morris : Untitled; title: Jason Carney (1970) : America's pastime; title: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) : Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby; title: Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970) : Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note; title: Adrian Matejka (1971) : Beat boxing ; Robot music; title: Jessica Care Moore (1971) : mic check, 1-2; title: John Murillo (1971) : Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk; title: Francine J. Harris (1972) : Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test; title: 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); title: Suheir Hammad (1973) : Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo); title: Marty McConnell (1973) : The world tells how the world ends ; Object; title: John Rodriguez (1973-2013) : Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best; title: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973) : Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka); title: Tara Betts (1974) : Hip hop analogies ; Switch; title: Paolo Javier (1974) : From all convulsions; title: Douglas Kearney (1974) : Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus; title: Avery R. Young (1974) : A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk; title: Lemon Andersen (1975) : The future; title: Michael Cirelli (1975) : The message ; Astronomy (8th light); title: Kevin Coval (1975) : The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block; title: Jericho Brown (1976) : Motherland; title: Mahogany L Browne (1976) : When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of basquiat ; nameless; title: Aracelis Girmay (1977) : Elegy in gold ; Break; title: Idris Goodwin (1977) : Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks; title: Enzo Silon Surin (1977) : Corners; title: Mayda Del Valle (1978) : It's just begun; title: Denizen Kane (1978) : Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1; title: Paul Martinez Pompa : I have a drone; title: Kyle Dargan (1980) : Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P.; title: Tarfia Faizullah (1980) : 100 bells : Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky; title: Samantha Thornhill (1980) : Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale; title: Aleshea Harris (1981) : Harbor; title: Jacob Saenz (1982) : Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!'); title: Nadia Sulayman (1982) : Bint ibrahim; title: Sarah Blake (1984) : Ha ha hum ; Adventures; title: Adam Falkner (1984) Small poems for big; title: 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; title: Michael Mlekoday (1985) : Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy; title: Kristiana Colon (1986) : To the notebook kid; title: Ciara Miller (1987) : In search of black birds; title: Morgan Parker (1987) : Let me handle my business, damn; title: 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; title: Alysia Nicole Harris (1988) : When I put my hands in the air it's praise; title: Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988) : Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk; title: Angel Nafis (1988) : Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity; title: Jose Olivarez (1988) : Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court; title: Joy Priest (1988) : No country for black boys; title: Ocean Vuong (1988) : Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread; title: 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; title: Franny Choi (1989) : Pussy monster ; Impulse buy; title: Nate Marshall (1989) : On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers ; Juke; title: Aaron Samuels (1989) : Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob; title: Danez Smith (1989) : Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America; title: Jamila Woods (1989) : Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens; title: Benjamin Alfara (1990) : What the eyes saw; title: Safia Elhillo (1990) : A suite for ol' dirty; title: Aziza Barnes (1992) : Juicy (an erasure); title: Camonghne Felix (1992) : Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police; title: Steven Willis (1992) : Beat writers; title: Reed Bobroff (1993) : Four elements of ghostdance; title: Malcolm London (1993) : Grand slam; title: Kush Thompson (1994) : This, here; title: E'mon McGee (1996) : My niece's hip-hop; title: Angel Pantoja (1997) : Murder is my name; title: Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999) : Lesson one; title: Ars poeticas & essays; title: Quraysh Ali Lansana : Art, artiface, & artifact; title: T'ai Freedom Ford : Artist statement; title: Michael Mlekoday : Artist statement; title: Douglas Kearney : Artist statement; title: Angel Nafis : Artist statement; title: Aziza Barnes : A locus of control and the erasure; title: Tara Betts : Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende; title: roger Bonair-Agard : Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage; title: Patrick Rosal : The art of the mistake : Some notes on breaking as making; title: Nate Marshall : Blueprint for breakbeat writing; title: Reprinted poems; title: Acknowledgments; title: Biographies.