Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195337136)

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.

Author: David Caplan
ISBN-10: 0195337131
ISBN-13: 9780195337136
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2014
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 250