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Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism

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The tragedy of gun violence is depicted in annotated illustrations that illuminate a society gone hamn; from legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.)

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before October 03, 2023.

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Forthcoming: 10/3/23

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What people are saying…

“The iconic hip-hop artist presents an ambitious combination of prose and visual art, drawing from his personal journals. Chuck D brings the energy and passion that powered Public Enemy to these fiery social critiques of the pandemic era, the post-2020 election chaos, and the early days of the Biden administration.”
—Kirkus Reviews, on STEWdio

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Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before October 03, 2023.

In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. He has long spoken out against gun violence, including how it intersects with rap and hip-hop culture. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022—a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death.

In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jaw-dropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens; there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections (“Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus / Raining outside in Ohio / Raining inside folks panic / Inside hearing shots bust”), all written in Chuck’s hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolor art.

This book is the follow-up to STEWdio the debut trilogy on Chuck D’s Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium—the “naphic grovel”—a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose. Summer of Hamn is the second release on the imprint.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Published: 10/3/23
  • IBSN: 9781636141527
  • e-IBSN: 9781636141541
  • Hardcover
  • IBSN: 9781636141534

Author

Chuck D

Chuck D is the leader and cofounder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, a social activist, multimedia producer, visual artist, and digital music pioneer. He has been featured in more than one hundred documentaries on music, technology, politics, and race, and cocurated the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. He has also been a national spokesperson for Rock the Vote, the National Urban League, Americans for the Arts, and the National Alliance of African American Athletes. As part of Public Enemy, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of StewDio and Summer of Hamn.

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