"Here’s what you’re going to do: You’re gonna learn to time travel and sneak into your high school poetry class. You’re gonna leave this book on your desk with a note that says, 'Hey!! Poetry can be fun and cool and accessible and like this. Also, wipe the drool off your face.' Then you’re gonna slip away without being noticed because of the dangers of time travel and stuff. Except this kinda poetry might be more dangerous than time traveling because it will wake you the F up, make you start breaking things—start your own rebellious, spitfire canon of poetry."
Publisher Haymarket Books
Publication Date 2015-04-07
Section Poetry / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Melissa L.-O.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781608463954
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.
