Recognize Poems

"Kevin Powell...works in free verse informed by the hip hop rhythms and occasionally the nihilism of some contemporary music...He uses evocative images to bring alive the ideas many young black people have only heard about secondhand...Where Powell falters is when his historical analysis feels learned from record samplings and sound bites...Where Powell's work soars is in celebrating contemporary popular culture that is bursting with a multitude of ideas and issues...Powell's got the black anger thing down, and as his consciousness expands and he also gains the impulse to urge us to live, his craft will deepen. He already fits comfortably into the world of poetry that black people have used to save our lives."Powell, Kevin is the author of 'Recognize Poems' with ISBN 9780863163241 and ISBN 0863163246.