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FROM THE POET the Chicago Tribune calls the new voice of Chicago," comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who have used and misused Black music. Like so many others who gained fame and fortune from their sampling, L-vis is as much a sincere artist as he is a thief. In Kevin Coval's poems, L-vis' story is equal parts forgotten history, autobiography, and re-imaginings. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history's more obscure whiteboy" heroes and anti-heroes: legendary breakdancers, political activists, and music impresarios.A story of both artistic theft and radical invention, L-vis Lives! is a poetic novella on all of the possibilities and problems of post-racial" American culturewhere Black art is still at times only fully accepted in a white face, and every once in a while an L-vis" comes along to step in to the void.i am a hero
to most. the great hope<BR>>a complex back-story.
<BR>>the business of my father.<BR>bland's antonym.<BR>jim crow's black sheep.<BR>>left to rise in the darkness
<BR>>carded in the wild
of working class, single
mother hoods. a hero
who transcends
who translates the dis
satisfactions of the plains;
kids of kurt cobain,
method man amphetamine,
the odd Iowan who digs dirt
and lights beyond the pig yard,
spits nebraskan argot,<BR>hero to the heart<BR>land, middle brow(n) america<BR>
to most. the great hope<BR>>a complex back-story.
<BR>>the business of my father.<BR>bland's antonym.<BR>jim crow's black sheep.<BR>>left to rise in the darkness
<BR>>carded in the wild
of working class, single
mother hoods. a hero
who transcends
who translates the dis
satisfactions of the plains;
kids of kurt cobain,
method man amphetamine,
the odd Iowan who digs dirt
and lights beyond the pig yard,
spits nebraskan argot,<BR>hero to the heart<BR>land, middle brow(n) america<BR>
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