Spoken Word: A Cultural History Severo Sarduy

Spoken Word: A Cultural History Severo SarduyJoshua Bennett In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work in progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett's young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. But in this book, he is not

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and precise description

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