{"product_id":"the-breakbeat-poets-new-american-poetry-in-the-age-of-hip-hop-paperback","title":"The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Coval\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eQuraysh Ali Lansana\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNate Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHip-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. \u003ci\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Coval is the author of \u003ci\u003eSchtick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL-vis Lives: Racemusic Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEveryday People\u003c\/i\u003e and the American Library Association \"Book of the Year\" Finalist \u003ci\u003eSlingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Artistic Director at Young Chicago Authors, and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuraysh Ali Lansana is the author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011, where he was also Associate Professor of English\/Creative Writing. \u003ci\u003eOur Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy \u0026amp; Social Justice in Classroom \u0026amp; Community\u003c\/i\u003e (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers \u0026amp; Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Walmart Republic\u003c\/i\u003e w\/ Christopher Stewart and \u003ci\u003ereluctant minivan\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNate Marshall is the author of \u003ci\u003eWild Hundreds\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and served as a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan. A Cave Canem Fellow, Nate won the 2014 Hurston\/Wright Founding Members Award and the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. He is a founding member of the poetry collective Dark Noise. He is also a rapper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166615408775,"sku":"9781608463954","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e76e2c119397d51f6e793ef5f6f2a8d8_b9dd60fd-8e7e-45dc-accb-2dbcb42ff4cf.webp?v=1733322026","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-breakbeat-poets-new-american-poetry-in-the-age-of-hip-hop-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}