An edition of The BreakBeat poets
(2015)
The BreakBeat poets
new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
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"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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The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
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The BreakBeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
2015
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Table of Contents
| 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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