Aloud
An anthology that gathers the Nuyorican poetry scene at full heat, where performance, urban speech, and communal identity meet on the page.
Work Information
A vivid anthology collecting the voices of the Nuyorican scene.
This anthology gathers poems and voices born on New York's Lower East Side into a broad, energetic survey. Its speed and physicality preserve the atmosphere of the scene with uncommon immediacy.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Published
- 1994-08-15
- Pages
- 540 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 3.02 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780805032574
- ISBN-10
- 0805032576
- Price
- 5432 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Compiled by poets who have been at the center of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, Aloud! showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.
Miguel Algarín is a founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New York City's Lower East Side and has hosted the Cafe's live radio broadcasts on WBAI for more than 18 years. He is also a distinguished poet and critic with several books to his credit. He teaches at Rutgers University. Bob Holman is a widely known poet-and poetry activist-whose mission is "to make poetry as natural a use for language as ordering a pizza." He is the author of The Collect Call of the Wild and a co-editor of The United States of Poetry .
Reviews
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got this book in a timely manner and paid pennies for it. haven't read it just yet. flipped thru it and found so many good poems it left me homesick and longing to return to the nuyourican poets cafe. i've watched a lot of poets on youtube. anyway for what it's worth i'd recommend this one. Aloud helps me feel connected to NYC and living here in charleston, SC i really need it.
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I heard a poet in Sacramento read from this book during her feature at Luna's Cafe in 2000 or so. I was so impressed with the piece, so moved, that I noted the cover of the book she was reading from. I have never forgotten it, and when I came across it while browsing recently, I remembered and purchased it. I'm sharing it with my son, a young poet himself, and I know he'll be as inspired by it as I am.
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One of my favorite books! I bought this a couple of years back from Amazon and it is great I still have it in my collection. The poets are incredible it inspires me to want to write.
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Reading this stunningly broad and emotional collection of slam poems, two things are immediately noticeable. The first: these are excellent slam poems. The second: these are (mostly) disappointing printed-page poems. If you have experienced slam poetry, either live or via audio or video recording, "Aloud" helps you appreciate how performance-intensive slamming is. A group of juvenile delinquents can perform a scene of Shakespeare and still retain much of its poignance and beauty, for such was Shakespeare's skill with words. Not so with most of the poems in "Aloud"--in the wrong hands, they could be very disappointing slam poems indeed. Had others written and performed them, they likely would never have made it into this collection. In short, all but a few poems in "Aloud" don't measure up to the canon of printed-word poems humans have amassed over the centuries. And yet, when read aloud, or considered as only half of a slam poem (the peformance being the other half), they can surprisingly come to life with power and grace.
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Some of the best poems all in one book! Yes!