{"product_id":"the-breakbeat-poets-kevin-coval-9781608463954","title":"The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop","description":"\u003cp\u003eHip-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. \u003ci\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe BreakBeat Poets\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Coval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1608463958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608463954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2015 pg. 38","brand":"Kevin Coval","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052131512575,"sku":"9781608463954","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf4ef6b8-2c39-465a-b299-e8e9ade93707.jpg?v=1685017122","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-breakbeat-poets-kevin-coval-9781608463954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}