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Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 886 Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 03:59 pm: |
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Whether you are a new jack performance poet or from the Old Skool, this is a CD you need to have http://authors.aalbc.com/oursouls.htm
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Rondall Moderator Username: Rondall
Post Number: 59 Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:41 am: |
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I gotch you on this one. I have had this CD for years. I have had a couple of listening parties where we sit around around just groove to this joint for a couple of hours. It is also painfully points out at times that many outstanding poets were never meant to be performers. Some of their readings tend to monotone and bromidic. But over all the CD is the best poetry compilation that I have ever come across. All Black, all beautiful... Some of my favorites include: If We Must Die / Claude McKay Ma Rainey / Sterling A. Brown Dahomey / Audre Lorde Wounded in the House of a Friend / Sonia Sanchez A Poem for Players / Al Young Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985 / Wole Soyinka Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Etheridge Knight The Idea of Ancestry / Etheridge Knight Cruelty /Lucy (Pt. 6) / Lucille Clifton Venus's-Flytraps / Yusef Komunuakaa and Poem for Magic / Quincy Troupe I agree with you. This CD is a must have. |
Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 890 Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:33 am: |
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Rondall: You didn't dig Carl Hancock Rux's No Male Show? |
Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 891 Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:34 am: |
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Also I forgot, you know Thumper is Etheridge Knight's nephew. |