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The University of Hip-Hop. Poems.
Mayda Del Valle
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Description for The University of Hip-Hop. Poems.
Paperback. The University of Hip Hop is a collection of eleven original poems by poet and performer Mayda Del Valle, winner of the National Poetry Slam Individual title and Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam Championship and National Poetry Slam Individual title. The collection is an homage to her hometown of Chicago. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 8. .
The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, more specifically a particular moment in Chicago - of growth and development, coming of age, of learning how to construct a new self from old-world customs and new-school traditions. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how to build a new home elsewhere.
These poems invoke nostalgia tempered with the knowledge that one cannot return to the past. They employ tonal and structural variations that account for said nostalgia without ... Read more
The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, more specifically a particular moment in Chicago - of growth and development, coming of age, of learning how to construct a new self from old-world customs and new-school traditions. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how to build a new home elsewhere.
These poems invoke nostalgia tempered with the knowledge that one cannot return to the past. They employ tonal and structural variations that account for said nostalgia without ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810135093
SKU
V9780810135093
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Ref
99-15
About Mayda Del Valle
Mayda Del Valle is a poet and performer. A proud native of Chicago's South Side, she appeared on Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on HBO and was a contributing writer and original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. She is currently program director of the poetry-based, nonprofit youth organization Street Poets Inc., and a dancer ... Read more
Reviews for The University of Hip-Hop. Poems.
The poet manages the collection by curating it so that the reader can DJ the poems, arrange their own set, and thus, to borrow a phrase from the world of hip-hop, ‘spin’ their own performance. I invite you into this book to play."" - Chris Abani, from the foreword