Inner-course A Plea for Real Love Author:Toni Blackman Toni Blackman is an international champion of hip-hop culture, known for her irresistible, contagious performances and alluring female presence. She?s all heart, all rhythm, all song, all power?a one-woman revolution of poetry and microphone. Like Ntozake Shange, Blackman and her cool, musical poetry and prose weave a magical spell around you, ... more »daring you to break her hypnotic hold. Toni?s themes are: the paradoxes of love; the inspirations and hypocrisies of brothers who rhyme; quiet internal wisdom versus the incessant necessity to have her life saved by a DJ. She explodes at the mic and blooms on the page.
In the poem ?inner-course,? Toni challenges the crass commercial culture of love and guides us into her version of real love: the love of self. In another poem, called ?well . . . ,? she illuminates the pain of a shallow romance in the face of a world tragedy and tries to find meaning in her heartache. In ?Getting Open,? a prose piece, Toni teaches us how to free ourselves from fear?hip-hop style.
Toni Blackman is your guide into the heart and soul of her creative?and very human?Inner-course.« less