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Lädt ... Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilismvon Chuck D
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. The message is clear and needs to be said over and over. Gun violence is the #1 killer of children and teens in the US. And legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D uniquely presents this message in this graphic novel. Very powerful. Very sad. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. This is a terrific book.Chuck D clearly kept journals in 1922 of events, and issues, and observations about life in America. This book compiles pages from those journals. Although there is a continuous thread of comments about guns, and gun violence- lending Chuck D to create the phrase "The Summer of H.A.M.N"- the man clearly has much wider interests. Politics, Drought, Celebrities, and anything else that was contemporary or of interest to Chuck D are all in here. The journal pages combine pictures and words, so one could make a stretch and call this book a graphic novel. But it's not a novel, there is no storyline. The phrase Chuck D created for his observations is "naphic grovel". Pretty clever! He is a talented artist well as writer. Some of his caricatures are right-on-the-money, such as his quick sketches of Brian Stelter, David Allen Grier, Herschel Walker, Brittany Griner, Ghislaine Maxwell, etc. Each re-reading of the book reveals some interesting new insights. I am not into rap, and so I am not familiar with the actual music Chuck D made with Public Enemy, but based on this book, I can see how brilliant their poetry might be. Recommended Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Summer of Hamn by rapper Chuck D is an interesting diary of the events of 2022 depicted by personally drawn artwork and writings. The premise portrays the gun violence of 2022 from the writer's perspective. I, myself would not typically read a book like this, but enjoyed seeing what occurred in 2002 from a different perspective. For a person who likes rap, this is a good source for a historical perspective of the 2022 events. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I am not typically a fan of graphic novels. However, from the writing that brings similar comfort I felt when reading Tupac's 'The Rose That Grew From Concrete', mixed with the powerful imagery, I was a fan of this. I read it immediately, in the car, in one sitting. A great book to add to my collection and one I am glad to have won. An important message more need to read.
The tragedy of gun violence is depicted in annotated illustrations that illuminate a society gone hamn; from legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) "With his latest work of graphic nonfiction, Chuck D uses his art and hip-hop rhymes to show how the US has been held hostage by gun violence and a growing sense of hopelessness . . . A focused, fresh, urgent text filled with pictures worth 1,000 words and rhymes worth thousands more." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. He has long spoken out against gun violence, including how it intersects with rap and hip-hop culture. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022--a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jaw-dropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens; there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections ("Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus / Raining outside in Ohio / Raining inside folks panic / Inside hearing shots bust"), all written in Chuck's hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolor art. This book is the follow-up to STEWdio the debut trilogy on Chuck D's Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium--the "naphic grovel"--a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose. Summer of Hamn is the second release on the imprint. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It is filled with poetry that goes many different places, giving you insight into how Chuck's brain works, into his different interests, and that he is an intelligent, curious man who matured over the span of his career. His drawings are rather stark but emotive--they gave me pause. This was notable to me because shooting have become so commonplace I simply do not pay attention to them anymore but seeing them documented in words and images changed that, at least for the moment. Certainly gun violence has had a much larger impact on inner city populations in a number of different ways. I appreciated the opportunity to get inside his mind a bit and I enjoyed some of the fun moments too, like when he rode a bike. ( )