What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language Unexhausted Time From poet Chantal Neveu

From poet Chantal Neveu

a clutch of contagious eco-shockers guaranteed to make you weep

"Desnos's poem

Norma Cole's superb new translation is no less exciting

" then what does all this dispossession feel like

What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language Unexhausted Time From poet Chantal NeveuDaniel Levin Becker What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical