The BreakBeat Poets : New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop - Kevin Coval

The BreakBeat Poets

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

By: Kevin Coval (Editor), Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor), Nate Marshall (Editor)

Paperback | 16 June 2015

At a Glance

Paperback


$37.90

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.47 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 15 to 25 business days

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.

The 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.

More in Anthologies with Various Poets

Tools of the Trade : Poems for New Doctors - John Gillies
44 Poems on Being with Each Other : A Poetry Unbound Collection - a Tuama
Permanent Record - Naima Yael Tokunow

RRP $39.99

$37.75

Poetry Prescription : Wild Remedy - Deborah Alma
Poetry Prescription : Becoming - Deborah Alma
Guwayu, for all times : A Collection of First Nations Poems - Jeanine Leane
Love is Strong as Death : Poems chosen by Paul Kelly - Paul Kelly
100 Best-Loved Poems : Thrift Editions - PHILIP SMITH

RRP $12.99

$12.50

100 Poems To Help You Sleep : Volume 2 - Jane McMorland Hunter

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Survival Takes a Wild Imagination : Poems - Fariha Róisín

RRP $32.99

$26.95

18%
OFF
Love is Strong as Death : Poems chosen by Paul Kelly - Paul Kelly
Ritual : A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry - Sara M. Saleh
Map : Collected and Last Poems - Wislawa Szymborska

RRP $26.39

$25.25

Funeral Readings and Poems : Macmillan Collector's Library - Various
Spinning Around : The Kylie Playlist - Kirsten Krauth

RRP $34.99

$28.50

19%
OFF
Rabbit 39 : MUTINY - Jessica Wilkinson

RRP $24.95

$22.75

The Poetry of Flowers - Samuel Carr

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF