The BreakBeat Poets

The BreakBeat Poets PDF Author: Kevin Coval
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608463958
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

The BreakBeat Poets

The BreakBeat Poets PDF Author: Kevin Coval
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608463958
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 PDF Author: Felicia Chavez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 164259198X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Book Description
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next.

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 PDF Author: Jamila Woods
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608468704
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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A BreakBeat Poets anthology, Black Girl Magic celebrates and canonizes the words of Black women across the diaspora.

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3 PDF Author: Fatimah Asghar
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 160846606X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others. Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. She is the author of If They Come For Us and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Citizen Illegal

Citizen Illegal PDF Author: José Olivarez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608469557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today

Doppelgangbanger

Doppelgangbanger PDF Author: Cortney Lamar Charleston
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 164259265X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Dopplegangbanger, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.

Black Queer Hoe

Black Queer Hoe PDF Author: Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608469530
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Book Description
From an award-winning and “stunningly talented” writer, reflections on the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation (Samantha Irby, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life). Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing, unapologetic debut, award-winning performance poet and playwright Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power in a world that refuses black queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries. Black Queer Hoe is a powerful intervention into important and ongoing conversations. “In a debut crackling with energy, honesty, and wit, Kapri moves to reclaim elements of language surrounding women’s sexuality, especially that of black women . . . Kapri assails the ways social norms are routinely used to blame girls and women for the moral failures of boys and men. Embracing the intimacy of a confessional and the sting of a viral tweet, Kapri unabashedly celebrates the various facets of her self and refuses to serve as anyone’s martyr.” —Publishers Weekly

Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go PDF Author: Kevin Coval
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642590835
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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A unique artistic tribute to a Chicago neighborhood lost to gentrification: “Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet” (Chance the Rapper, Grammy winner and activist). Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities. “Chicago’s unofficial poet laureate.” —NPR

Wild Hundreds

Wild Hundreds PDF Author: Nate A. Marshall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981084
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Book Description
Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.

Milagro

Milagro PDF Author: Penelope Alegria
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642595222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Penelope Alegria's Milagro is a retracing of parental lineage, a recount of the stories that course through the veins of family. The collection examines the effects of immigration from the perspective of both the immigrant and the immigrant's child, investigating how the act of leaving reverbrates through generations. These poems echoe with fondness and longing, with love and sacrifice that reflects the first-generation American's struggle to belong. Alegria writes about uncles, Peruvian cuisine and first boyfriends to show how what immigrants choose to leave behind is often what their children carry with them.