Is rap poetry?
This is another one of those tiresome arguments I’ve had too often–and decided there wasn’t much new or useful to say on the subject. Adam Bradley has shown me the error of my ways (one of the errors pertaining to some of my ways). In his new book, Rhymes With Reason, Bradley makes an argument that rap has helped re-establish rhythm in everyday speech. This reminded me of an earlier post by Renee about the compatibility of older poetic forms with the modern spoken word. Do rap lyrics hold the key to more natural, accessible poetic forms? You can check out an excerpt from Bradley’s book here.
At The Huffington Post, there’s a call for poems that “you turn to when you need cheering up;” someone posted Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” Yikes. At any rate, there’s already a long list of responses, suggesting that there really are people out there who read poetry.
by Martin Woodside
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