L-vis Lives! : Racemusic Poems.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction by Patricia Smith -- life side -- L-vis is a baby in the wilderness -- the crossover -- Posing -- Jealous of the Black Boys -- call and (tepid) response -- Faded -- the white train -- L-vis (dis)covers the blues -- black studies -- solo tip -- L-vis trip/tics thru american history class -- L-vis imagines if Tupac had read Etheridge Knight's for black poets who think of suicide -- cracking the code -- rep.resent: L-vis tells a white lie -- fresher than them -- L-vis explains the white do-rag -- snaps! -- The Humes High School Band Presents Its Annual Minstrel Show -- quarters in the don't play arcade -- Joe Strummer points to the Future -- I am Mr. Freeze! -- Bill Ayers in the Kitchen -- Rick Rubin's (Black) Magic Act -- death side -- L-vis is discovered -- nerve -- the cash register in Dr. Dre's head goes bling -- robert van winkle has some tough decisions to make -- the beastie boys cast a video for paul's boutique -- L-vis is dating Jezebel -- Matando Güeros -- Vanilla Ice on the Arsenio Hall Show -- the critic truths: a found haiku -- L-vis wonders about the burn at his back -- dissatisfied with his costume, L-vis invokes Nat Turner on Hollow-wean -- letter to white backpackers and battlerappers -- photo collage / jump cut-ups: white mobs in 1956 -- holla for Troy Davis -- white art -- hero to most -- L-vis sittin on some New Magellans -- ode to painkillers -- national anthem -- returning to Memphis -- broke/////////beat/////////intermezzo -- what the whiteboy wants -- whiteboy i could've been: a suite for John Walker Lindh -- desire for the cipher -- 5% -- posing -- picket fences -- Suleiman al-Faris -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- self-sacrifice -- last letter home -- whiteboy still -- Notes -- About the Author.