• Newark Black: 1940-1954

  • By: C. K. Williams
  • Narrated by: Ice T
  • Length: 5 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Newark Black: 1940-1954

By: C. K. Williams
Narrated by: Ice T
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Publisher's summary

"Newark Black" is a short story from the collection New Jersey Noir, featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White and Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano.

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: "...The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances - of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir."

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Beautifully Read! In the vein of slam poetry.

This is a well written poem read by Ice T, who proves at every turn just how truly talented he is. I am eager to hear more narrations by him.

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While interesting it didn’t seem like enough to be worth a full credit. Some background or analysis of the poem would have been more worthwhile.

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well written

ice t did a nice job with this poem I will listen again & again

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