Springtime Rhythm and Rhyme – Nielson Aragon
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Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude // ABC – The Art and Poetry of the English Alphabet Explained in a Philosophical Verse of Rhythm and Rhyme $8.99 … |
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The Force of Poetry $3.99 … |
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop $10.16 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 ren… |
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Hip Hop Speaks to Children with CD: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (Poetry Speaks Experience) $9.58 Grade 4-8-This anthology highlights the use of rhythm and vernacular in hip-hop, rap, and African-American poetry. The 51 pieces-which also include a passage from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech-use gospel rhythms, “hambone” rhythms (which Giovanni explains in her informative introduction), jazz and blues rhythms, and language from the fields and the city streets. Artists range from L… |
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Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse $6.42 In the grand tradition of Alexander Pope, John Hollander offers this explication/enactment of poetic form. There are sonnets about how to write sonnets, haiku about how to write haiku, and so on. The writing is clever, entertaining, and instructive, which will surprise no one familiar with Hollander’s work. What’s even more impressive, though, is how often these poems–which could so easil… |
