
L-vis Lives!
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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 Coval's poems, L-vis' story is equal parts forgotten history, autobiography, and re-imaginings. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history's more obscure "whiteboy” heroes and anti-heroes: legendary breakdancers, political activists, and music impresarios.
A story of both artistic theft and radical invention, L-vis Lives! is a poetic novella on all of the possibilities and problems of "post-racial” American culture-where Black art is still at times only fully accepted in a white face, and every once in a while an "L-vis” comes along to step in to the void.
i am a hero to most. the great hope of something other. a complex back-story. something other than the business of my father. bland's antonym. jim crow's black sheep. the forgotten son left to rise in the darkness among the dis carded in the wild of working class, single mother hoods. a hero who transcends who translates the dis satisfactions of the plains; kids of kurt cobain, method man amphetamine, the odd Iowan who digs dirt and lights beyond the pig yard, spits nebraskan argot, hero to the heart land, middle brow(n) america
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Patricia Smith is a multiple award-winning poet, author of Blood Dazzler, finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and one of NPR's Top Books of 2008, and the National Poetry Series winner Teahouse of the Almighty. Smith is also a four-time National Poetry Slam champion.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- life side
- L-vis is a baby in the wilderness
- the crossover
- Posing
- Jealous of the Black Boys
- call and (tepid) response
- Faded
- the white train
- L-vis (dis)covers the blues
- black studies
- solo tip
- L-vis trip/tics thru american history class
- L-vis imagines if Tupac had read Etheridge Knight's for black poets who think of suicide
- cracking the code
- rep.resent: L-vis tells a white lie
- fresher than them
- L-vis explains the white do-rag
- snaps!
- The Humes High School Band Presents Its Annual Minstrel Show
- quarters in the don't play arcade
- Joe Strummer points to the Future
- I am Mr. Freeze!
- Bill Ayers in the Kitchen
- Rick Rubin's (Black) Magic Act
- death side
- L-vis is discovered
- nerve
- the cash register in Dr. Dre's head goes bling
- robert van winkle has some tough decisions to make
- the beastie boys cast a video for paul's boutique
- L-vis is dating Jezebel
- Matando Güeros
- Vanilla Ice on the Arsenio Hall Show
- the critic truths: a found haiku
- L-vis wonders about the burn at his back
- dissatisfied with his costume, L-vis invokes Nat Turner on Hollow-wean
- letter to white backpackers and battlerappers
- photo collage / jump cut-ups: white mobs in 1956
- holla for Troy Davis
- white art
- hero to most
- L-vis sittin on some New Magellans
- ode to painkillers
- national anthem
- returning to Memphis
- broke/////////beat/////////intermezzo
- what the whiteboy wants
- whiteboy i could've been
- desire for the cipher
- 5%
- posing
- picket fences
- Suleiman al-Faris
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- self-sacrifice
- last letter home
- whiteboy still
- Notes
- About the Author
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