L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems

by Kevin Coval

Book Overview

FROM THE POET the Chicago Tribune calls "the new voice of Chicago," comes L-vis Lives , a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.

L-vis is an imagined persona, a representation of artists who have used and misused Black music. Like so many others who gained fame and fortune from their sampling, L-vis is as much a sincere artist as he is a thief. In Kevin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608461513
• ISBN13: 9781608461516
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"