Opening Ceremony -- Chasing The American Dream -- Freistil Battle -- Son Of A -- Die Fantastischen Vier -- Okaloosa County -- Operation Just Cause, 1989 -- Paper Shredding Blues -- Deployed -- Mr. Senor Love Daddy -- Telecommunications Act Of 1996, Or Ode To Black Radio -- Improvisational Riff -- Dancing With James Brown -- Hip-hop Saudade (sho Nuff!) -- Bricolage -- Hip-hop Nostaljack -- The Low End Theory -- Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon -- Luke Cage, Hip-hop Superhero For Hire -- John Stewart, The Black Green Lantern, Drops Science With Defiance -- What's Beef: The Unauthorized Biography Of Dr. John Henry Irons's Alter Ego, Steel -- Lovelust A La Mode -- Supersonic -- Tough Love -- B-boy Manifesto -- Manhattan -- Lovelust A La Mode -- Spawn -- Paranoid -- The Making Of A Fresno, Texas, Love Poem -- Chorophobia -- Olympic Butter Gold (united States East Coast Interlude) -- Regularizer (the G-funk Semi-finals) -- Portrait Of Hermes As A B-boy -- Sticky Icky Icky -- Kleosphobia -- Choppin' -- Ersatz -- The Thief's Theme -- Dear 2pac -- Regulate -- Ronda Final (awready) -- Outkast Crown -- Unsung -- Houston -- Olympic Butter Gold (havana, Cuba, Interlude) -- Hip-hop -- Pintata -- (from Ghetto Fabulous To Ghetto Fascist) -- 2pac Pantoum -- 2084 (remix) -- Gothic Barkley. Jonathan Moody. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 93-94). Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, 2014.

Jonathan Moody

Marlboro Press, The

Hydra Books

United States, United States of America

Nov 30, 2015

PS, 2015

Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached.

Source title: Olympic Butter Gold: Poems

Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When raps Golden Ages expired, the musics innovativeness and variety diminished. Moodys second book, Olympic Butter Gold , responds to Chuck Ds claim that "if there was a HIP-HOP or Rap Olympics, I really dont think the United States would get Gold, Silver or Brass." From the poem "Opening Ceremony," in the voice of a heroin addict struggling to use Lady Libertys torch to cook "The American Dream," to "Dear 2Pac," an autobiographical account of teaching Tupac Shakurs poetry to engage high school students indifferent to literature, Moody shares a worldview that is simultaneously apocalyptic and promising.

xi, 94 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94)
Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, 2014

2023-06-28