Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

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Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate MarshallHip 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

an acclaimed poet maps the territory between mother and daughter

and speculates on desire

Timothy Donnelly

as Melnick reckons with violence

to resist being capsized by giving into the roiling mess of our hearts and minds by admitting the endless cataclysms of our love

Mehigan stretches the fabric of living language over a framework of regular meter to produce a compelling sonic counterpoint

The great Audre Lorde didn't spend much time in Brooklyn

intensely personal search for beauty

violence and his own sexuality

and stakes of human behavior

the poet and the natural world are mirrors of one another

and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in