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    1989, The Number
    1989, The Number
    1989, The Number
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    1989, The Number

    By Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall

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    1989, the number is an exploration of the year 1989 through politics, personal history and culture. This chapbook plays like a mixtape incorporating the hottest records and stories of 89 and reflecting their relevance for today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2016
    ISBN9781608467440
    1989, The Number
    Author

    Kevin Coval

    Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists and musicians. He is the author and editor of many books, including A People's History of Chicago and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and co-author of the play, This is Modern Art. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Drunken Boat, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Fake Shore Drive, Huffington Post, and four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam.

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      1989, The Number - Kevin Coval

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      1989, The Number

      by

      Kevin Coval & Nate Marshall

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      Haymarket Books

      Chicago, Illinois

      that year changed everything

      —Noam Chomsky

      what a time to be alive

      —Drake & Future

      in the year

      they locked James Brown

      he was the home of styles, the break at its peak.

      the year the internet was the block, a record

      store. paul revere in all leather w/ a megaphone.

      in the best year for white boy rap

      New York clapped back with a black mayor.

      native tongues announcing / pronouncing

      a pro-Blackness in suede pumas & a gumby.

      the year before the year before all the years before

      i knew to want a starter            jacket                 & ain’t get one.

      another year to want to rock Africa around my neck.

      another year to learn again the Black man was g-d.

      the year of pops bush & baby daley,

      the

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