Spoken word : a history of how performance poetry changed the world
Bennett, Joshua (Poet)2023
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Spoken word is the Western world's oldest form of literary expression. Spoken word is where poetry begins. Spoken word has changed the world. In 2009, at only twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited by President Barack Obama to recite a poem at the White House. With Spike Lee and Saul Williams among the audience, this event turned out to be the very same one where Lin-Manuel Miranda first performed the opening lines of a work-in-progress that revolutionised theatre - 'Hamilton'. With passion, wit and erudition, in 'Spoken Word' Bennett takes us on his own electrifying coming-of-age journey as a writer, alongside the rise of spoken-word poetry and its origins in America.
Main title:
Spoken word : a history of how performance poetry changed the world / Joshua Bennett.
Author:
Bennett, Joshua (Poet), author
Imprint:
London : Square Peg, 2023.
Collation:
352 pages
ISBN:
9781529110487 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2338256