Full name: Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

Author: Adam Bradley Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon ISBNs: 9780465003471 0465003478

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves. Similar books: The Anthology of Rap by Adam Bradley Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison Solipsist by Henry Rollins The Coral Sea by Patti Smith King Ink by Nick Cave Tarantula by Bob Dylan The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams Woolgathering by Patti Smith Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen The Last Holiday by Gil Scott-Heron Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan Metallica: Back to the Front by Matt Taylor The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell In My Head by J. M. Storm