NPS #6 - Lucifury's "Dark Jester" destroyed me.

[scottwoods]

There's been a lot of talk about the group work from Denver on the Finals stage last week, and justifiably so: they are a honed squad of professional performers doing poignant work that does not shy away from the full range of its team's abilities. They seem to have actively sought out any limitations in each of their poets and single-handedly

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[nerak_g]

I could NOT agree more.His words strip paint from walls and peel back skin.The line about the grandmother's milk as the white lines on the flag--WHAT!?
I love it when a poem bends the form, when the performance is as creative as the words---and then for their whole team to do that in a unified way is just marvelous.Most years in NPS it's a poet here and there, or certain poets on certain teams (remembering Bluz & Swan's duet from a couple of years ago), or sparks throughout.
I feel like NUBA forced us all to witness
& that's the WHY of love I have for this, because I came to poetry through the poetry of witness.
So when a whole team does it, top to bottom, every element, it's a win for all.
That piece---I agree---you have to hear it live to really let it get to you, with all the voice, all the power & all the eyeroll.
I agree, it's a classic.

[radioactiveart]

Just watched the YouTube of the Nuba send off (since I couldn't get to Finals).

If that didn't do it justice, I'd be hard pressed to imagine what it was like at Finals. That was outstanding.

[revsaintmichael]

"What kind of empty you got inside of you..."

"If you're willing to trade that superiority for humanity again /
Then I'll be waiting for you like salvation inside the darkness of the divide"

He HAMMERED that piece. My teammate Warren gave up the standing ovation, and that's a rarity.

It made me think of Bayou while he was performing it.

It was the best piece I heard on Finals Stage.

[upendedurn]

I agree. That poem was in my top two, and I'm not ranking either beyond that.