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1) Homie: poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive,...
Author
Publisher
Verve Forecast
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed band Tank and the Bangas are back with a three-part spoken word collection. The physical album comes with an additional track. The album features new poems from Tank and are selections from working with producer notables James Poyser, Robert Glasper, Iman Omari, Brian London and Austin Brown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art from of choice. Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. When the city threatens to close her beloved community arts center, Gabby is detemined to find a way to help. Can she rally her community and harness the power of her words to save the community arts center?
Series
Thamyris intersecting volume no. 24
Publisher
Rodopi
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Over the past decades, the poetry performance has developed into an increasingly popular, diverse, and complex art form. In theoretical and critical discourse, it is referred to as performance poetry, spoken word poetry, and polipoesía; some theorists argue that it is an independent poetic genre, others treat it as a contemporary manifestation of oral poetry or of the poetry recital. The essays collected in this volume take up the challenge that...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980s, Johnson examines the limitations of romance to heal broken relationships or rebuild a broken city. Slow Jams, red-lit rooms, cheap...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin Manuel-Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American...
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