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Contents
Note from the Publisher
CD Track List (total time: 74:49)
Prologue
Billy Collins
Regie Gibson
Part One: The Beat Remnants
Introduction
Quincy Troupe, Jr
Kent Foreman
George David Miller
Edward Hirsch
Regie Gibson
Marvin Bell
Yusef Komunyakaa
Part Two: Hip Hop
Introduction
Regie Gibson
Jerry Quickley
DJ Renegade
Tara Betts
Celena Glenn
Kevin Coval
Saul Williams
Part Three: Performance Art
Introduction
Jean Howard
Cin Salach
Todd Alcott
Jean Howard
Lisa Buscani
Gregory Harms
Part Four: Competitive Poetry/Taos
Introduction
Terry Jacobus
Peter Rabbit
Daniel S. Solis
Anne MacNaughton
Sherman Alexie
Andrei Codrescu
Part Five: Slam
Marc Smith
Marvin Bell
Regie Gibson
Dr. Richard Prince
Michael Warr
Michael R. Brown
Brenda Moossy
Michael Kadela
Steve Marsh
Thomas Lux
Jack McCarthy
Jeffrey McDaniel
Bob Holman
Regie Cabico
Taylor Mali
Beau Sia
Patricia Smith
Roger Bonair-Agard
Shane Koyczan
Part Six: Youth Speaks
Introduction
Viggo Mortensen
Luis J. Rodriguez
Sarah Maehl
Chinaka Hodge
Adam Tapia-Grassi
Kevin M. Derrig
Epilogue
About the Editors
Contributor Biographies
Index
CD Track List (total time: 74:49)
1Marc Smith: Introduction / "Stupid Song" (A Parody of "Makin’ Whoopee")
2Billy Collins
3"Introduction to Poetry" (Billy Collins)
4Where the Revolution Started
5"Chicago" (Quincy Troupe, Jr.)
6Beat Remnants:Edward Hirsch and Marvin Bell
7"Song" (Edward Hirsch)
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8"To Dorothy" (Marvin Bell)
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9Hip Hop / Jerry Quickley
10"Hip Hop Hollas" (Jerry Quickley)
11"The Hand Has Turned" (Celena Glenn)
12"Beat Box Monster" (Sage Francis) / Saul Williams
13"Amethyst Rocks" (Saul Williams)
14Performance Art / "Music Swims Back to Me" (Cin Salach and Ten Tongues)
15Todd Alcott
16"Television" (Todd Alcott)
17Taos Poetry Circus / Terry Jacobus
18The First World Heavyweight Poetry Championship (Terry Jacobus)
19"So Edgar Allan Poe Was in this Car" (Terry Jacobus)
20Slam / "It" (Marc Smith)
21"Slam Schtick" (Marc Smith)
22Patricia Smith
23"A Motherfucker Too" (Patricia Smith)
24Roger Bonair-Agard
25"how do we spell freedom-the weusi alphabeti method" (Roger Bonair-Agard)
26Nuyorican Poets Café / "DisClaimer" (Bob Holman)
27NYC-Urbana Slam Team and Taylor Mali
28"Running a Race (No One Knows)" (NYC-Urbana Slam Team)
29"How to Write a Political Poem" (Taylor Mali)
30Slam Goes International
31Jack McCarthy
32"Careful What You Ask For" (Jack McCarthy)
33Jeffrey McDaniel
34"The Foxhole Manifesto" (Jeffrey McDaniel)
35Brenda Moossy
36"What I said to the Man Installing the Hot Tub" (Brenda Moossy)
37Regie Gibson
38"it’s a teenage thang" (Regie Gibson)
39Youth / Regie Gibson: "Amens"
40Youth Speaks / Eli Marienthal
41"Multiverse" (Eli Marienthal)
42Viggo Mortensen, Kevin M. Derrig, and Two Tongues
43"Weekends" (Viggo Mortensen)
44"First Period" (Kevin M. Derrig)
45"Mother" (Two Tongues)
46Spoken Word Revolution / "Pull the Next One Up" (Marc Smith)
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coy knight
reviewed Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation on May 20, 2009
Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
Former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins states in the prologue of this book, "So, hearing a poem lends the experience of literature an immediacy, a reality not found on the page where we must conjure up the ghost-form of the poet who wrote the poems," and the audio CD that accompanies The Spoken Word Revolution provides just that intimacy with dramatic voice and occasionally music for its verses. This anthology is selectively comprised of six parts with an explanatory essay and numerous poems to illustrate the innovative oral traditions of poetry: the Beat Remnants; Hip Hop; Performance Art; Competitive Poetry/Taos; Slam; and Youth Speaks. The poems are all unconventional, and many challenge the status quo. These poems are likely to resonate with youth, especially those in the slam section. For example, "it's a teenage thang (for every teenager who has rebelled against their parents by sneekin out to party" is so quintessentially adolescent as it recites, "we don't give a damn/bout ass kickin/waitin on us when we get/ home way past curfew/ (ok a little)." I found this book in an "April is Poetry" Month display at the San Mateo Public Library, and it was also included in Aragon Library by my predecessor.
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Add Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation, A dynamic and clarifying volume chock-full of fresh and informative commentary...and an exciting array of knock-out poems. -Booklist Starred Review Accompanied by a terrific CD that showcases the great variety of styles performance poetry embrac, Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation, A dynamic and clarifying volume chock-full of fresh and informative commentary...and an exciting array of knock-out poems. -Booklist Starred Review Accompanied by a terrific CD that showcases the great variety of styles performance poetry embrac, Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation to your collection on WonderClub |