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Beau Sia (Traditional Chinese: 謝福源; Simplified Chinese: 谢福源; Pinyin: Xiè Fúyuán, Born 1976, Philippines) is a Chinese Filipino-American slam poet. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When not participating in his high school's swim team, he spent time at Oklahoma City's only open mike night. Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...
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Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ...
A Chinese Filipino (Simplified Chinese: åŽè²; Traditional Chinese: è¯è²; Hanyu Pinyin: HuáfÄ“i; Hokkien: HuÇŽhÅ«i; Cantonese: Waafei; Tagalog/Filipino: Tsinoy (pronounced ʧɪnÉ”j) derived from two words: Tsino (meaning Chinese) and Pinoy (the slang word for Filipino) is a person with Chinese blood born in the Philippines. ...
Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience. ...
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Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ...
The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, a making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
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From there, Sia went to New York University, where he attended the Tisch School of the Arts dramatic writing program. He has said that moving to New York made him conscious of his identity as an Asian American, something that he denied often in Oklahoma City. His cultural identity became a common theme in his poems. New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...
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An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as he is influenced by his belonging to a group or culture. ...
Sia performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he frequently won. He became a member of the 1996 Nuyorican national poetry slam team, which came in third that year. He eventually reached second place in the individual slam competition in 2001. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings, the café is a non-profit organization. ...
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He wrote a parody of Jewel's work, A Night Without Armor, over four hours and published it as A Night Without Armor II: the Revenge in 1998. He wrote different poems with Jewel's original titles, lampooning her earnest lines. It is painfully detailed in its satire, changing the delicate paintings printed in Jewel's book to rough, humorous pencil drawings by Sia. The front and back cover were also painstakingly mirrored. In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...
Jewel Kilcher[1] (born May 23, 1974)[2] is an American Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actress, poet and philanthropist, generally known just by her first name, Jewel. ...
A Night Without Armor is a poetry collection by the folk singer Jewel Kilcher. ...
Sia then began touring around Europe and the United States. He also appeared in films and published a wide range of his works in book and compact disc form. A compact disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...
Style and examples Sia's style is humorous and satirical. His word choice is often deceptively simple. A good example of his work is the poem "love," which was first performed at Marymount Manhattan College in 1996. It is featured on his CD Attack! Attack! Go!, as well as being included in the book Slam. Marymount Manhattan College is a liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York. ...
It begins
- I think love is the most beautiful thing
- in the world,
- and I don't give a fuck,
- because I have no original ideas.
Sia tells readers/listeners that the goal of his poem about love is to get women to fall in love with him, but that he is unsure how to discuss the topic because he doesn't know what love is: - if only we could open our Encyclopedia Britannica
- and look up love and know,
- but love isn't that easy.
Sia then reminisces about past relationships, wondering about his ability to connect with women. He says perhaps he should be sensitive, but - the sensitive side sucks....
- you can only imagine the kinds of sweaters
- they make you wear
- it's not fair
From here, Sia says that love and life are not fair; he deserves to be loved; he is merely misunderstood. He then rages that "you don't want to/ understand me!"; instead, he surmises that the readers/listeners would rather shoehorn him into the stereotype of the Asian man with the small penis Asian people[1] is a demonym for people from Asia. ...
- until he is brave enough to fling it out
- and say,
- "HA! WE ARE GIGANTIC!"
Sia then realizes that he has become disconnected from the poem's original thesis, love. He tries again, but falls into another tangent about Woody Allen's girlfriend, suggesting that she could be his "long-lost sister" that his mother gave away when they lived in China — "wait," Sia says, "I never lived in China./ I think I've begun lying in this poem." Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...
He restates that what he wanted was to talk about love "for 3.4 minutes" and come to a conclusion, but that he doesn't know what love is. He closes the poem with:
- you see, all I'm saying
- is
- someone love me.
Works - Sia, Beau. A Night Without Armor II: the Revenge. New York: Mouth Almighty Books, 1998.
- Sia, Beau. Attack! Attack! Go! Compact disc released in 1998 by Mouth Almighty Records.
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Inclusion in anthologies - Cabico, Regie and Todd Swift, eds. Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry. Vehicule Press, 1998.
- Colby, Todd, ed. Heights of the Marvelous : A New York Anthology'. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. (On the Amazon.com listing for this book, "Seau Bia" posts a review that is nothing but a plea for attention to Beau Sia.ISBN 0-312-26335-X)
- Glazner, Gary Mex, ed. Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry. San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2000.
- von Ziegesar, Cecily, ed. Slam. New York: Alloy Books, 2000. (This book also includes quotes by Sia on what poetry is, the writing process, etc.)
- Sanchez, Sonia; Medina, Tony; and Rivera, Lois Reyes, eds. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. Three Rivers Press, 2001.
- Katz, Daniel R., ed. Why Freedom Matters: The Spirit of the Declaration of Independence in Prose, Poetry, and Song from 1776 to the Present . Workman Publishing Company, 2003.
- Glazner, Gary Mex. How to Make a Living as a Poet. (Interview) Soft Skull Press, 2005.
Film and television Sia's appearances on television were on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry; he later appeared in the Broadway version, Def Poetry Jam. The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theatre, 2003 Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
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He appeared in Slam in 1998 as Jimmy Huang. The same year, he participated in the documentary SlamNation as himself. Later appearances include The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as a late-night comedian on television and Hitch (2005) as Duane Reade Clerk. Slam is a 1998 film starring Saul Williams and Beau Sia. ...
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...
The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 U.S. American film based on the 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, and a reimagining of the previous 1962 film. ...
Hitch is a 2005 romantic comedy film starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James and Amber Valletta. ...
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Sia portrays the protagonist in the music video for Wolf Like Me by the band TV on the Radio. TV on the Radio is a New York City indie rock band formed in 2001 whose music spans genres as diverse as free jazz, a cappella/doo-wop, soul, trip-hop and electro. ...
References
Print - Glazner, Gary Mex, ed. Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry. San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2000.
- Sia, Beau. A Night Without Armor II: the Revenge. New York: Mouth Almighty Books, 1998.
- von Ziegesar, Cecily, ed. Slam. New York: Alloy Books, 2000.
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