The University of Hip-Hop: Poems (The Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Valle, Mayda Del

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810135094 ISBN 13: 9780810135093

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2017

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Críticas:

The poet manages the collection by curating it so that the reader can DJ the poems, arrange their own set, and thus, to borrow a phrase from the world of hip-hop, 'spin' their own performance. I invite you into this book to play." - Chris Abani, from the foreword

Reseña del editor:

The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, more specifically a particular moment in Chicago - of growth and development, coming of age, of learning how to construct a new self from old-world customs and new-school traditions. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how to build a new home elsewhere. These poems invoke nostalgia tempered with the knowledge that one cannot return to the past. They employ tonal and structural variations that account for said nostalgia without risking naivete, taking all the influence of that time (hope, youth, love, music, art, and engagement) as a formal device, yet one filtered through the condensation of a current, more mature and nuanced understanding. The worldview learned then is employed in the now and frames the approach to the work, moving through formal registers that include spoken word, American lyric and narrative traditions, experimental thrusts, and documentary honed with the edge of hip-hop.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0810135094
• ISBN 13: 9780810135093
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48