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Incorporating serial poems such as Nothing of the Month Club and December 32nd, as well as the long ideogram-based work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, FUR NOT LIGHT makes manifest the way that, as one of the poems in the volume puts it, there's a difference between turning around and turning back.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369934459153,"sku":"CIN099926494XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/099926494X.jpg?v=1751171897"},{"product_id":"man-on-high-the-essays-on-skateboarding-hip-hop-poetry-book-jeff-alessandrelli-9781912477029","title":"Man on High, The: Essays on Skateboarding, Hip-Hop, Poetry","description":"Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. Music. Twenty years after the murder of The Notorious B.I.G., THE MAN ON HIGH melds the creative and the critical, and questions what legacy means in the 21st century. Contemplating Biggie through the lens of both skateboarding and poetry, Jeff Alessandrelli's THE MAN ON HIGH illuminates how The Notorious B.I.G. will always be rapping in the present tense.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In an era where the imagination is bent on nostalgia, the '90s is the number one fetish object, and events like the OJ Simpson trial and the LA Riots are being rehashed in Adidas track suits and retro band merch (I'm writing this in a Sade t-shirt I bought in a suburb of St. Louis over the summer), to the extent that Kendall Jenner tried to sell t-shirts with photos of Biggie on them with no permission from his estate and played naive when she got shut down, we need the complex sincerity of THE MAN ON HIGH. This is a rare example of a black musician who helped set the tonal landscape for an entire subculture actually being given credit and proper attention and love. 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