Doppelgangbanger - (Breakbeat Poets) by Cortney Lamar Charleston (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>Dopplegangbanger</em>, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>Praise for <em>Telepathologies</em>: </strong><br /><br />"Cortney Lamar Charleston's poems testify in the eternal court of history; he speaks, as Aime Cesaire once did, for miseries that have no mouth and to liberate those who languish in the dungeon of despair. Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and nine slain members of Mother Emanuel AME Church--voices silenced through institutionalized racism and the unchecked power of hate--form the nucleus of this powerful indictment of an America still suffering the legacy of its slave-trading past. Timely, immediate, imperative; this is poetry from inside the center of the storm; an urgent and articulate call for change."<br /><strong>--D.A. Powell</strong>, author of <em>Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys<br /><br /></em>"Cortney Lamar Charleston fills <em>Telepathologies</em> with his big-hearted, yet biting and clear-eyed analysis. These powerfully worded poems do not let us look away, neither from the ills and woes infecting contemporary black life nor from the role of media (news, social) in circulating them among us. We move from concrete poems to ghazals to familiar and unfamiliar forms of free verse. Charleston keeps us on our toes as we follow him into spaces of blackness--those that he inhabits and those that inhabit him. In these poems, even in the face of fatal violence, the black body lives and breathes, mourns and survives. I welcome this poet's debut."<br /><strong>--Evie Shockley, author of <em>the new black </em></strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, <em>Telepathologies</em>, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at <em>The Rumpus</em>.</p>
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