I haven't read What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language yet, haven't even read the review of it in the NYT Book Review, but judging by its title, I'm guessing it's a must-read. For me, for you, for anybody practicing the art of poetry today, in English at least. So, I give you the link.
In fact, I think I'll order the book and figure out how to use it at Wednesdays@One. After all, it hasn't been that long ago that I staked the future of American poetry on hip-hop and how thoroughly language can be refurbished through that sub-genre.
If poetry is the working of the material of language into art, then rap or hip-hop is the leading edge of what we're up to today in poetry, and one of those innovations that keeps poetry current generation after generation of writers.
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