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TwERK

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ISBN-10: 098853990X

ISBN-13: 9780988539907

Edition: N/A

Authors: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

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Poetry. African American Studies. TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural inclusivity. The poems, songs, and myths in this long-awaited first book are as rooted in lyric as in innovation, in Black music as in macaronic satire. TWERK evokes paradox, humor, and vulnerability, and it offers myriad avenues fueled by language, idiom, and vernacular. From a poet unafraid to take risks, this book asks only that we imagine America as it has always existed, an Americana beyond the English language."Here it is: a dope jam of dictions; a remixed, multicultural, polyphonic dance of vocabularies; a language of high stakes, hi-jinx, and hybridity. TWERK…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Belladonna Books
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 110
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Writer, vocalist, and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks, which include Ichi- Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna*), and the album Televis�on . Her work has been published in Rattapallax , Black Renaissance Noir , Nocturnes , FENCE, Ploughshares , The Black Scholar , P.M.S , LA Review , jubilat , Everything But the Burden , and Muck Works among others. Her interdisciplinary work has been featured at The Kitchen, Exit Art, MoMA, Recess Activities Inc, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, and The Whitney. As a vocalist, she has worked with the likes of Vernon Reid, Akilah Oliver, Mike Ladd, Butch Morris, Gabri Christa, Shelley…