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Toni Blackman
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| Title: |
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Inner-course: A Plea for Real Love |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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160 |
| Date: |
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2003-08-05 |
| ISBN: |
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0375509143 |
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Villard |
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0.6 pounds |
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5.52 x 8.32 x 0.67 inches |
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1 |
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| Previous givers: |
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1 Kel Munger (USA: CA) |
| Previous moochers: |
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1 zenfish (USA: OR) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
Toni Blackman is an international champion of hip-hop culture, known for her irresistible, contagious performances and alluring female presence. She’s all heart, all rhythm, all song, all power—a one-woman revolution of poetry and microphone. Like Ntozake Shange, Blackman and her cool, musical poetry and prose weave a magical spell around you, daring you to break her hypnotic hold. Toni’s themes are: the paradoxes of love; the inspirations and hypocrisies of brothers who rhyme; quiet internal wisdom versus the incessant necessity to have her life saved by a DJ. She explodes at the mic and blooms on the page.
In the poem “inner-course,” Toni challenges the crass commercial culture of love and guides us into her version of real love: the love of self. In another poem, called “well . . . ,” she illuminates the pain of a shallow romance in the face of a world tragedy and tries to find meaning in her heartache. In “Getting Open,” a prose piece, Toni teaches us how to free ourselves from fear—hip-hop style.
Toni Blackman is your guide into the heart and soul of her creative—and very human—Inner-course.
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http://bookmooch.com/0375509143 |
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