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Killing Poetry
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Author : Javon Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-17
Killing Poetry written by Javon Johnson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Poetry categories.
In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of poetry. However, there is little critical dialogue that fully engages with the cultural complexities present in slam and spoken word poetry communities, as well as their ramifications. In Killing Poetry, renowned slam poet, Javon Johnson unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces. He argues that the truly radical potential in slam and spoken word communities lies not just in proving literary worth, speaking back to power, or even in altering power structures, but instead in imagining and working towards altogether different social relationships. His illuminating ethnography provides a critical history of the slam, contextualizes contemporary black poets in larger black literary traditions, and does away with the notion that poetry slams are inherently radically democratic and utopic. Killing Poetry—at times autobiographical, poetic, and journalistic—analyzes the masculine posturing in the Southern California community in particular, the sexual assault in the national community, and the ways in which related social media inadvertently replicate many of the same white supremacist, patriarchal, and mainstream logics so many spoken word poets seem to be working against. Throughout, Johnson examines the promises and problems within slam and spoken word, while illustrating how community is made and remade in hopes of eventually creating the radical spaces so many of these poets strive to achieve.
The Mercy Killing
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Author : William J. Bragi
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-04-21
The Mercy Killing written by William J. Bragi and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-21 with Poetry categories.
The trouble with poetry is that no one reads it. Poetry, quite frankly, sucks --or at least that's what we've been led to believe. I have found that, if we have a little fun (but serious fun) picking at postmodern poets, who are read by no one but poor college English majors (No, the professors don't read it!), and try not to take ourselves too seriously, we can have a blast. Now, if you don't get the point of this book, you are probably a blooming idiot and you've got no business thinking about reading poetry. If you're a hypocritical, fundamentalist-type Christian, you might want to mosey on over to the Christian reading section. We discuss some pretty heavy religious issues in this book. If you go, you're a blooming idiot, too. If you buy this book and burn it, you'll fry in Hell. I'll see you as I'm passing through. Gentle Readers, I love each and every one of you as individuals. Buy this book. Don't p*ss me off! Never be yours truly, William Joy Bragi
Killing Two Stones
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Author : Paul Vanden Boogard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-08
Killing Two Stones written by Paul Vanden Boogard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08 with Religion categories.
Killing It
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Author : Gaia Rajan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-09-27
Killing It written by Gaia Rajan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-27 with categories.
Winner of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Poet Gaia Rajan's second short collection is a razor-sharp interrogation of queer Asian American identity, intergenerational trauma, and the detritus of American achievement. Here, lineage is at once redemptive and violent: "Sometimes / when people say Iím killing it I remember everything / exemplary I know or ever will traces back to a small girl / on the floor praying please, please, make them see me." In this steely gut-punch of a collection, Rajan's speakers don't flinch, even when confronted with their own dissolution. They haunt ghost towns and cheer on bank robbers; they wake in the middle of the night with visceral dreams of a centuries-old genocide, trying to remember "how to coax a howl to eat;" they grasp for myths sturdy enough to hold, emerging empty-handed and furious. Killing It is vibrant, disquieting, a collection that demands to be read with reverence and abandon. "Gaia Rajan's KILLING IT deeply considers the ethics of poetic observation: 'I worry that to be a poet is to sit and wait for beautiful things / to die. To exploit distance. To steal / flight.' With extraordinary narrative deftness, Rajan guides her reader from phantom water sounds trapped in a knee to the televangelical economy of Ohio with skillful, almost mathematical wordplay and uncanny insight. The speaker multiplies herself in order to gain some omniscient dimensionality, moving from 'I' to 'She' to 'You,' all while exploring how modes of address position our vulnerabilities to our families, the outside world, a beloved, a sister, an ancestor, an editor, a stranger. Rajan understands the part she is meant to play and then gleefully destabilizes the crafted role, creating her own rituals. Of the speaker's father, she writes: 'Unlike him / I am a good man; every time I kill, I bury it.' The poems are not about distance or flight, then, but what is still holy about the proximate and the fallen, what we do with what has already been deemed damned."--Megan Fernandes, author of Good Boys and The Kingdom and After "In her outstanding new chapbook KILLING IT, Gaia Rajan explores queerness and the overwhelm of outside reactions to that queerness. 'I lived / in a narrow house where every night the ceiling / closed on me like a lid.' Throughout these surreal and vibrant poems, Rajan questions language's relationship to death and violence, as well as her own relationship to language. In 'Inside Every Poem You Can Hear Muffled Screams,' Rajan writes, 'I worry that to be a poet / is to sit and wait for beautiful things // to die.' Rajan manages to fit an anthologyís worth of striking images into this chapbook, and I'm already aching to reread it."--Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck Poetry. LGBTQ+ Studies.
I Wrote This Instead Of Killing Myself A Collection Of Poems By Me Bay Dorenbos Under The Pseudonym Jon Bates
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Author : Jon Bates
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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I Wrote This Instead Of Killing Myself A Collection Of Poems By Me Bay Dorenbos Under The Pseudonym Jon Bates written by Jon Bates and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Killing Current
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Author : John Pluecker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Killing Current written by John Pluecker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Chapbooks categories.
poetry, experimental, contemporary
Kbp Killer Boxing Poet
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Author : KBP
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-07-16
Kbp Killer Boxing Poet written by KBP and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-16 with Poetry categories.
This book of pome's based on life in the street's of N.Y.C. Like problemtic pome. Stray bullet's taking young life's each day. A pome for everone. In this book some will make you happy; some sad. Most will make you think. I have been writing for about 10 years thank's to U.G.A. in Athen's GA. They woke up the dog in me. Thank you Bull Dog's U.G.A. I love my Dog's U.G.A. Raper's let's get paid. I got the rime just give me a beat. '50' G's Let's all eat! Le's show young blood how it's done without a gun rap battle let's have some fun so get like K.B.P. talking shit I'm good but please don't push me. God bless you all. KBP
Five Ways To Kill A Man
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Author : Edwin Brock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Five Ways To Kill A Man written by Edwin Brock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Poetry categories.
Contains a poem that has been one of the most anthologized poems in England and the US.
They Don T Kill You Because They Re Hungry They Kill You Because They Re Full
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Author : Mark Bibbins
language : en
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date : 2016-08-01
They Don T Kill You Because They Re Hungry They Kill You Because They Re Full written by Mark Bibbins and has been published by Copper Canyon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Poetry categories.
Honored as a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly "The book's a little crazy, packed with air quotes and brackets, jokes and condemnations, forms that explode across the page. Crazily enough, it's also packed with truth.”—NPR “The voice of this third book from Bibbins is marked and numbed by the onslaught of American media and politics that saturate the Internet, television, radio, and smartphone: ‘the way things are going, children/ will have to upgrade to more amusing.’ Much like advertisements or news stories vying for viewer’s attention, the book intentionally overwhelms, eschewing sections; the author instead differentiates the poems by repetition, creating a sort of echo chamber, similar to the way viral information cycles through social media platforms.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review "[A] hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization.”—American Poets "Whip-smart and wickedly funny, They Don't Kill You is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date."—Boston Review The poems in Mark Bibbins's breakthrough third book are formally innovative and socially alert. Roving across the weird human landscape of modern politics, media-exacerbated absurdity, and questionable social conventions, this collection counters dread with wit, chaos with clarity, and reminds us that suffering is "small//compared to what?" Mark Bibbins teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of The Awl. He lives in New York City.
Killing Floor
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Author : Al Ogawa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Killing Floor written by Al Ogawa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.