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    Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins
    Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins
    Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins
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    Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins

    By Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin

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    In 1988, Dominque Wilkins & Michael Jordan squared off in Chicago for the most epic dunk contest in the history of the sport. 30 years later, poets & playwrights, Idris Goodwin & Kevin Coval, long-time collaborators, pay homage to the slam dunk, the anniversary of contest & to the moment & to the sport that changed culture in America & around the globe. Human Highlight: An Ode to Dominique Wilkins is a celebration of creativity, improvisation & the beauty & power in the game of basketball.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateMar 2, 2018
    ISBN9781608469833
    Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins
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    Kevin Coval

    Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists and musicians. He is the author and editor of many books, including A People's History of Chicago and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and co-author of the play, This is Modern Art. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Drunken Boat, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Fake Shore Drive, Huffington Post, and four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam.

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