What's Good: Notes on Rap and LanguageDaniel Levin Becker What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical

Ada Smailbegović is a poet and theorist born in Sarajevo and currently living in Brooklyn

a reading of existence and of death

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and Leaves collects dozens of poems written by Martin Wong between 1966 and 1968

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in an effort "to change writing completely

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this boldly experimental record follows the poet’s eye as she traverses early morning into night

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