{"product_id":"inner-course-a-plea-for-real-love","title":"Inner-course: A Plea for Real Love","description":"Toni Blackman is an international champion of hip-hop culture, known for her irresistible, contagious performances and alluring female presence. She’s all heart, all rhythm, all song, all power—a one-woman revolution of poetry and microphone. Like Ntozake Shange, Blackman and her cool, musical poetry and prose weave a magical spell around you, daring you to break her hypnotic hold. Toni’s themes are: the paradoxes of love; the inspirations and hypocrisies of brothers who rhyme; quiet internal wisdom versus the incessant necessity to have her life saved by a DJ. She explodes at the mic and blooms on the page.\n\nIn the poem “inner-course,” Toni challenges the crass commercial culture of love and guides us into her version of real love: the love of self. In another poem, called “well . . . ,” she illuminates the pain of a shallow romance in the face of a world tragedy and tries to find meaning in her heartache. In “Getting Open,” a prose piece, Toni teaches us how to free ourselves from fear—hip-hop style.\n\nToni Blackman is your guide into the heart and soul of her creative—and very human—Inner-course.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0375509143\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0375509143.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Blackman, Toni\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45510525419697,"sku":"RDV.0375509143.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0375509143-0.jpg?v=1746812655","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/inner-course-a-plea-for-real-love","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}