Rhyme's Challenge
Caplan, David (Benjamin T. Spencer Professor of Literature, Benjamin T. Spencer Professor of Literature, Ohio Wesleyan University)![Rhyme's Challenge](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22666907/CHSBZCOP0322666907.jpg)
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and c...