The Breakbeat poets New American poetry in the age of hip-hop
Book - 2015
"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.
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[2015]
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- xxii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- 9781608463954
- An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961)
- Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962)
- An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Thoas Sayers Ellis (1963)
- Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964)
- Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Evie Shockley (1965)
- Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Tony Medina (1966)
- Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Willie Perdomo (1967)
- Agate / Mario (1967)
- 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 / Roger Bonair-Agard (1968)
- Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / Lynne Procope (1969)
- B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Patrick Rosal (1969)
- Untitled / Tracie Morris
- America's pastime / Jason Carney (1970)
- Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby
- / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970)
- Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970)
- Beat boxing ; Robot music / Adrian Matejka (1971)
- mic check, 1-2 / Jessica Care Moore (1971)
- Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / John Murillo (1971)
- Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / Francine J. Harris (1972)
- How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / T'ai Freedom Ford (1973)
- Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / Suheir Hammad (1973)
- The world tells how the world ends ; Object / McConnell (1973)
- Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / John Rodriguez (1973-2013)
- Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973)
- Hip hop analogies ; Switch / Tara Betts (1974)
- From all convulsions / Paolo Javier (1974)
- Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / Douglas Kearney (1974)
- A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / Avery R. Young (1974)
- The future / Lemon Andersen (1975)
- The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / Michael Cirelli (1975)
- The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Kevin Coval (1975)
- Motherland / Jericho Brown (1976)
- When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Mahogany L Browne (1976)
- Elegy in gold ; Break / Aracelis Girmay (1977)
- Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Idris Goodwin (1977)
- Corners / Enzo Silon Surin (1977)
- It's just begun / Mayda Del Valle (1978)
- Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / Denizen Kane (1978)
- I have a drone / Paul Martinez Pompa
- Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / Kyle Dargan (1980)
- 100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Tarfia Faizullah (1980)
- Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Samantha Thornhill (1980)
- Harbor / Aleshea Harris (1981)
- Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982)
- Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982)
- Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984)
- Small poems for big / Adam Falkner (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 / Marcus Wicker (1984)
- Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / Michael Mlekoday (1985)
- To the notebook kid / Kristiana Colon (1986)
- In search of black birds / Ciara Miller (1987)
- Let me handle my business, damn / Morgan Parker (1987)
- When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / Joshua Bennett (1988)
- When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Alysia Nicole Harris (1988)
- Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988)
- Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Angel Nafis (1988)
- Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / Jose Olivarez (1988)
- No country for black boys / Joy Priest (1988)
- Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / Ocean Vuong (1988)
- 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 / Fatimah Asghar (1989)
- Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / Franny Choi (1989)
- On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Nate Marshall (1989)
- Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Aaron Samuels (1989)
- Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Danez Smith (1989) werk (v.)
- Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods (1989)
- What the eyes saw / Benjamin Alfara (1990)
- A suite for ol' dirty Safia Elhillo (1990)
- Juicy (an erasure / Aziza Barnes (1992)
- Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Camonghne Felix (1992)
- Beat writers / Steven Willis (1992)
- Four elements of ghostdance / Reed Bobroff (1993)
- Grand slam / Malcolm London (1993)
- This, here / Kush Thompson (1994)
- My niece's hip-hop / E'mon McGee (1996)
- Murder is my name / Angel Pantoja (1997)
- Lesson one / Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999)
- Ars poeticas & essays.
- Art. artifice, & artifact / Quraysh Ali Lansana
- Artist statement / T'ai Freedom Ford
- Artist statement / Michael Mlekoday
- Artist statement / Douglas Kearney
- Artist statement / Angel Nafis
- A locus of control and the erasure / Aziza Barnes
- Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Tara Betts
- Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / Roger Bonair-Agard
- The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Patrick Rosal
- Blueprint for breakbeat writing / Nate Marshall.
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