A Sudden Turn for the Verse: A new Beat Generation tries on its goatee
It's "slam night" at New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the mostly white, decidedly young crowd has jammed the place all the way to its exposed-brick rafters, clamoring to hear the latest in poetic pyrotechnics. And, one by one, the sweat-shirted, baggy-jeaned bards oblige, ste...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Newsweek 1993-04, Vol.121 (16), p.61 |
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Zusammenfassung: | It's "slam night" at New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the mostly white, decidedly young crowd has jammed the place all the way to its exposed-brick rafters, clamoring to hear the latest in poetic pyrotechnics. And, one by one, the sweat-shirted, baggy-jeaned bards oblige, stepping up to the mike with a bravado that cannot be bowed: |
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ISSN: | 0028-9604 1069-840X |