The University of Hip-Hop: Poems

by Mayda Del Valle

The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, or, more specifically, to Chicago at a particular moment in the poet's life. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how to build a new home elsewhere. These poems invoke nostalgia tempered with the knowledge that one cannot return to the past. They employ tonal and structural variations that account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135094
• ISBN13: 9780810135093
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 6.8"