| Description |
xi, 94 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94). |
| Contents |
Opening ceremony -- Chasing the American dream -- Freistil battle -- Son of a -- Die fantastischen Vier -- Okaloosa county -- Operation Just Cause, 1989 -- Paper shredding blues -- Deployed -- Mr. Senor Love Daddy -- Telecommunications Act of 1996, or Ode to black radio -- Improvisational riff -- Dancing with James Brown -- Hip-hop saudade (Sho nuff!) -- Bricolage -- Hip-hop nostaljack -- The low end theory -- Berry Gordy's The last dragon -- Luke Cage, hip-hop superhero for hire -- John Stewart, the black Green Lantern, drops science with defiance -- What's beef: the unauthorized biography of Dr. John Henry Irons's alter ego, Steel -- Lovelust a la mode -- Supersonic -- Tough love -- B-boy manifesto -- Manhattan -- Lovelust a la mode -- Spawn -- Paranoid -- The making of a Fresno, Texas, love poem -- Chorophobia -- Olympic butter gold (United States East coast interlude) -- Regularizer (the G-funk semi-finals) -- Portrait of Hermes as a b-boy -- Sticky icky icky -- Kleosphobia -- Choppin' -- Ersatz -- The thief's theme -- Dear 2pac -- Regulate -- Ronda final (awready) -- Outkast crown -- Unsung -- Houston -- Olympic butter gold (Havana, Cuba, interlude) -- Hip-hop -- Pintata -- (from ghetto fabulous to ghetto fascist) -- 2pac pantoum -- 2084 (remix) -- Gothic Barkley. |
| Awards |
Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, 2014. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| ISBN |
9780810132221 (paper) |
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0810132222 (paper) |
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9780810132238 (e-book) |
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0810132230 (e-book) |
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9780810132238 (e-book) |
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