American Poetry in Performance - 9780472035526

American Poetry in PerformanceFrom Walt Whitman to Hip Hop\nAuthor(s): Tyler Hoffman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472035526, 978-0472035526\nSynopsis\n\""Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains provocative, interesting, and accessible.\"" \n---Jay Parini, Middlebury College\n\nAmerican Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America, covering 150 years of literary history from Walt Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene. It reveals how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern peri.