{"product_id":"9781608461516","title":"L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFROM THE POET the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e calls “the new voice of Chicago,” comes \u003ci\u003eL-vis Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e, a bold new collection of poetry and prose exploring the collision of race, art, and appropriation in American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of both artistic theft and radical invention, \u003ci\u003eL-vis Lives!\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ei am a hero to most. the great hope of something other.\u003cbr\u003ea complex back-story.\u003cbr\u003esomething other than the business of my father.\u003cbr\u003ebland’s antonym.\u003cbr\u003ejim crow’s black sheep.\u003cbr\u003ethe 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;\u003cbr\u003ekids of kurt cobain,\u003cbr\u003emethod man amphetamine,\u003cbr\u003ethe odd Iowan who digs dirt and lights beyond the pig yard,\u003cbr\u003espits nebraskan argot,\u003cbr\u003ehero to the heart land, middle brow(n) america \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031537402096,"sku":"9781608461516","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608461516_p0.jpg?v=1769902630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608461516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}