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In a searing, provocative collection of essays, letters, and meditations, a poet and cultural critic confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence, sex, misogyny, and his own mercurial rise from poverty to success. Tour.
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Kevin Powell is a former senior writer for Vibe magazine and an original cast member of MTV's The Real World. He is the author of recognize, his first volume of poetry, and coeditor (with Ras Baraka) of In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Essence. Kevin is currently at work on a childhood memoir, homeboy alone. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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hout the ghettoes of America we of the hiphop generation say 'keep it real' as a way of insisting that the truth is the only way to go. In short, there is no time for sidestepping reality."<br>--From the Introduction<br><br>In Keepin' It Real, writer, poet, and cultural critic Kevin Powell puts both himself and society under a microscope and creates a searingly honest collection that is both powerful and disturbing. Powell's letters and reflections take us on the dizzying tight-rope walk between two worlds. From the poverty and misery of his New Jersey childhood to the excesses and successes of his mercurial rise to prominence, it is a life lived on the cutting-edge. <br><br>Within this rich weave of musings, confession, and sometimes painful introspection, Powell confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence in the 90s, and his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny. He also explores the meaning and myths of the Million Man March and the infl
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