The spoken word revolution redux

Mark Eleveld

Sourcebooks MediaFusion, Apr 1, 2007 - Poetry - 295 pages

From its earliest days to today, poetry has always been a spoken art. On the page and out loud, poetry is the home for the brilliant, the rebellious, the artists and performers who are changing the world. Today's spoken word revolution is the literary equivalent to grabbing a culture by the collar and shaking it...hard.

In the tradition of The Spoken Word Revolution, Redux brings more of the gripping, moving, innovative, often hilarious poetry in the oral tradition. This redefining collection gathers multiple forms of "spoken word" under the same motley tent-slam, hip-hop, musical interpretations, and youth movements among them. The resulting brew is both satisfying and world-expanding. One audio CD features some of the best poems and poets, immediately live in their own electrifying words and voices.

The Spoken Word Revolution Redux includes:
--Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley
--Slam Poetry founder Marc Smith
--Ethan Hawke reading Beat Poet Gregory Corso
--Jazz pianist Patricia Barber adapting ee cummings
--Former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Bill Collins and Mark Strand
--Four-time national poetry slam champion Patricia Smith
--Jeff Tweedy of Wilco
--Hip-Hop founder Gil Scott-Heron
--Indy National Poetry Slam Champions, including Mayda da Ville
--Viggo Mortensen and Hank Mortensen
--Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins

What people are saying

Review: The Spoken Word Revolution Redux [With CD]

User Review  - Sean McManus - Goodreads

Some great poets and poems in here.

Review: The Spoken Word Revolution Redux [With CD]

User Review  - Heather - Goodreads

I had to read the original "Spoken Word Revolution" for a literature class in college and enjoyed it, so I grabbed this from the shelves when I saw it at my library. I was sort of disappointed, though ...

About the author

Mark Eleveld is copublisher of EM Press and a freelance writer. Mark did press relations for Marc Kelly Smith from 1993 to 1996. He teaches English at Joliet West High School and is a philosophy instructor at the University of St. Francis in Illinois. This is his first book. He lives in Joliet, Illinois.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The spoken word revolution redux
• Author: Mark Eleveld
• Editor: Mark Eleveld
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 29, 2008
• ISBN: 1402208693, 9781402208690
• Length: 295 pages
• Subjects: Art / Performance; Music / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop; Performing Arts / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / General