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By Derrick Weston Brown; Foreword by Simone Jacobson
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OVERVIEW
To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable
movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below
the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make
room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and
educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the
ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet’s life and
world, as told through a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some the
poet’s own.
Wisdom Teeth is a questioning work, a redefining of personal
relationships, masculinity, race, and history. It’s a readjustment of
bite, humor, and perspective as Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison,
and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.
Praise:
"This brilliant first effort is akin to a mixtape, filled with
nostalgic hip-hop references—MF Doom, A Tribe Called Quest, and J
Dilla, among others—a love letter from a grown man still much enamored
of the youth culture today. Found here are playful experiments with the
eintou, bop, and brownku, African American forms seldom approached with
such mastery." —Simone Jacobson, managing editor for Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
“We need more songs like this young man’s right here. Truth cuts its
way beneath the unspoken like new teeth on their way to light. Son of
Langston, come on through.” —Ruth Forman, author of Prayers Like Shoes
"Derrick Weston Brown ventures into the canon to echo the voices of Morrison’s Sweet Home Men,
then bends his ear to the streets of DC to render the shouts and
whispers of corner brawls and slapped down dominoes—all the while
balancing the bridge between Ellington and the sacred tribes of
hip-hop." —Tyehimba Jess, author of Leadbelly
"Full of wit and whimsy, Wisdom Teeth postulates a poetics
of heart-whole appreciation and honesty—for love and life, for family
and friends, for literature and history, for pop culture and the poet’s
ever-cognizant powers of observation." —Tony Medina, author of My Old Man Was always on the Lam
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