The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

Coval, Kevin, (editor.). Lansana, Quraysh Ali, (editor.). Marshall, Nate, (editor.). Haymarket Books, (publisher.).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781608463954
ISBN: 1608463958
Physical Description: print
xxii, 350 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Publisher: Chicago : Haymarket Books, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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 / Thomas 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 were 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) -- Hood / Mitchell L.H. Douglas (1970) -- Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Krista Franklin (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 / Marty 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 : San Andreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982) -- Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982) -- Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984) -- If you don't know / Adam Falkner (1984) -- Small poems for big / Chinaka Hodge (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 / Eva Ewing -- A remix for remembrance, Stockholm syndrome / Kristiana Coloʹn (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 Alfaro (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) -- 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.