TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chuck D,
TI  - Summer of HAMN: hollowpointlessness aiding mass nihilism 
SN  - 9781636141527
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Brooklyn, New York
PB  - Enemy Books/Akashic Books
KW  - Chuck D,
KW  - Rap musicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Firearms and crime
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2021-
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - Nonfiction comics
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
N2  - "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" --
ER  -