Bibliograph

The breakbeat poets:, new American poetry in the age of hip-hop, Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall, editors

Type

Label

The breakbeat poets:, new American poetry in the age of hip-hop, Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall, editors

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The breakbeat poets:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall, editors

Sub title

new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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