Slang: The People's Poetry

by Michael Adams

Book Overview

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the fundamental question "What is Slang" and defending slang--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195314638
• ISBN13: 9780195314632
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"