Rhyming Passion

Sweet Be the Bands: Spenser and the Sonnet of Association -- Licentious Rhymers: Donne and the Late-Elizabethan Couplet Revival -- An Even and Unaltered Gait: Jonson and the Poetics of Character -- Rhyme Oft Times Over-Reaches Reason: Measure and Passion after the Civil War -- Milton and the Known Rules of Ancient Liberty.

Gary Dotson is "the unlikely poet." Open and see these unique anointed writings of how true grit has met true grace in this man's life. A good heart shines out of his rough edges to inspire and encourage. Gary doesn't pretend to be super spiritual but expresses his simple but powerful faith in Jesus Christ through common language that happens to rhyme. He hopes you or someone you love can find deeper meaning in life through these poems. Gary wants young men and women to see the light and miss some wrong turns that he has made in his life. He shares a hope for unity between all believers in these rough last days. Miracles shine forth in many of these poems to encourage you to reach out and receive yours. Please read Rhyming Passion: A Journey... From Chains to Freedom and pass it on.

Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers, or lyrical circles of rhymers. Often a marginalized phenomenon, the complexity and creativity of Hip Hop lyrical production is emphasised, whilst Alim works towards the creation of a schema by which to understand its aesthetic. Using his own ethnographic research, Alim shows how Hip Hop language could be used in an educational context and presents a new approach to the study of the language and culture of the Hip Hop Nation: 'Hiphopography'. The final section of the book, which includes real conversational narratives from Hip Hop artists such as The Wu-Tang Clan and Chuck D, focuses on direct engagement with the language. A highly accessible and lively work on the most studied and read about language variety in the United States, this book will appeal not only to language and linguistics researchers and students, but holds a genuine appeal to anyone interested in Hip Hop or Black African Language.