{"product_id":"summer-of-hamn-hollowpointlessness-aiding-mass-nihilism","title":"Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism","description":"\u003cp\u003e--Selected for the In the Margins Book Awards 2024 Nonfiction Recommendation List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With his latest work of graphic nonfiction, Chuck D uses his art and hip-hop rhymes to show how the US has been held hostage by gun violence and a growing sense of hopelessness . . . A focused, fresh, urgent text filled with pictures worth 1,000 words and rhymes worth thousands more.\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIN \u003cem\u003eSUMMER OF HAMN, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eSummer of Hamn\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the follow-up to \u003cem\u003eSTEWdio\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eSummer of Hamn\u003c\/em\u003e is the second release on the imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enemy Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62085182030194,"sku":"BS-R4W-141527","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2972\/2226\/files\/9781636141527-HD.jpg?v=1784509636","url":"https:\/\/www.novelpanel.com\/products\/summer-of-hamn-hollowpointlessness-aiding-mass-nihilism","provider":"Novel Panel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}