Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
10 best books like Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Miguel Algarín): Loose Woman, The Beautiful: Collected Poems, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), Vice: New and Selected Poems, Blood Sugar, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Good Poems: American Places, These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women, Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets
| Author | Sandra Cisneros |
| ISBN | 0679755276 |
Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title:
I sleep with the cat
when no one will have me.
When I can't give it away
for love or money-
I telephone...
The Beautiful: Collected Poems
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 0916397890 |
“Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published...
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
| Author | Kevin Coval |
| ISBN | 1608463958 |
Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.
It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 1402202466 |
The poetry on the page wasn't very good. A DVD goes along with it. I enjoyed that more, which is the point of spoken word poetry.
Here is one example:
"The Foxhole Manifesto"
by Jeffrey McDaniel
There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb
The...
Ai's collection is startling, difficult, and important. Selected from the five books preceding this collection - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - these poems tackle dangerous parts of the human spirit in ways that leave readers gasping for air. Her metaphors and similes are often spiritual,...
| Author | Nicole Blackman |
| ISBN | 1888451343 |
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0393309762 |
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:
"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670022543 |
Another bestselling anthology from Garison Keillor-beautiful verses rooted in the American landscape.
Garrison Keillor, the editor of "Good Poems" and "Good Poems for Hard Times," host of "The Writer's Almanac," and all-around arbiter of fine American poetry, introduces another inspiring...
| Author | Marjorie Agosín |
| ISBN | 1877727385 |
This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility...
| Author | Jordan Trachtenberg |
| ISBN | 0312151918 |
What are are holding right now in your hands is a book. Not a telephone reciever, which is how most of the poems in this collection were first transmitted...There are plenty of examples of this spreading of one art form or another through popular mediums. There are all those wonderful Russian Constructivist...
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0452273412 |
La revisión de libro de los tiempos de Nueva York ha elogiado la ficción de Alvarez's mientras que "powerful... captura maravillosamente la experiencia del umbral del nuevo inmigrante donde no está todavía una memoria el pasado y el futuro sigue siendo un dream." ansioso; Estas mismas calidades...
| Author | Paul Hoover |
| ISBN | 0393310906 |
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0872863115 |
"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.
From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0394738594 |
“The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily bread of my past two years or so. They are the artifacts of loving in a personal way, of struggles in a wide and a narrower frame, of planting and harvesting in the earth and on paper, of building new friendships...
| Author | Sapphire |
| ISBN | 0679767991 |
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.
Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old...
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1929918550 |
Lucille Clifton’s poetry carries her deep concerns for the world’s children, the stratification of American society, those people lost or forgotten amid the crushing race of Western materialism and technology. In turns sad, troubled and angry, her voice has always been one of great empathy,...
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
| Author | Alan Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1560252278 |
The definitive collection of anti-establishment American poetry, from Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac to Sapphire and Tupac Shakur
"Welcome to the Wild West of American Poetry, the Hole-In-The-Wall of Blakean vision, a two-fisted saloon of New World dreams where you'll meet the greatest Outlaw...
| Author | Alix Olson |
| ISBN | 1580052215 |
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of...
| Author | Tony Medina |
| ISBN | 0609808400 |
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.
“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming...
| Author | Saul Williams |
| ISBN | 0965830810 |
The first book from one of the most gifted poets of the Hip Hop Generation. The Seventh Octave features some of this great young poets most revered poems. From "OHM," to "Sha Clack Clack," Saul's words are breathtaking and powerful with every read. The Seventh Octave is a must-have collection for any...
| Author | Nestor Capoeira |
| ISBN | 1556434405 |
The book starts off by giving an in-depth history of the Brazilian art of Capoeira. The last half of the book deals with the movements and techniques of Capoeira, including: offensive and defensive movements, basic kicks, takedowns, advanced kicks and movements, head butts, hand strikes, and knee...
The Selected Poems, 1968-1995
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0688140475 |
When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony of a life's work from one of the...
