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Kevin Young

Kevin Young 0000000109530225 Kevin Young, born in 1970, is a renowned poet and teacher influenced by Hughes, Berryman, Dickinson, and Basquiat. A Harvard graduate, Young authored multiple poetry book...

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Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young

Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young MULTIPLE Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four poetry books, including 'Life on Mars', and the upcoming 'Such Color: New and Selected Poems'. She ha...

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The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness

by Kevin Young

The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness Kevin Young 9781555976071 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by the New York Times *Finalist fo...

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The Art Of Losing: Poems Of Grief And Healing

by Kevin Young

The Art Of Losing: Poems Of Grief And Healing Kevin Young 9781608190331 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion do...

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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix

by Kevin Young

To Repel Ghosts: The Remix Kevin Young 9780375710230 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures...

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Night Watch: Poems

by Kevin Young

Night Watch: Poems Kevin Young 9780593319628 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From award-winning poet Kevin Young comes When I Fly Away, a profound collection of poems chronicling th...

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Stones: Poems

by Kevin Young

Stones: Poems Kevin Young 9781524711153 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called “one of the poet...

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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

by Kevin Young

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News Kevin Young 9781555977917 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take th...

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Jelly Roll: A Blues

by Kevin Young

Jelly Roll: A Blues Kevin Young 9780375414602 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hear...

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Book Of Hours: Poems

by Kevin Young

Book Of Hours: Poems Kevin Young 9780307272249 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my ...

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Black Maria

by Kevin Young

Black Maria Kevin Young 9780375710506 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in Jelly Roll with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving u...

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Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015

by Kevin Young

Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...

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The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink

by Kevin Young

The Hungry Ear: Poems Of Food And Drink Kevin Young 9781608195510 Poetry Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street ven...

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Emile and the Field

by Kevin Young

Emile and the Field Kevin Young 9781984850423 Fiction Make Me a World Penguin Random House In this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughou...

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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

by Kevin Young

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song Kevin Young 9781598536669 Poetry Library of America Library of America A Library of America AnthologyA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambiti...

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Brown: Poems

by Kevin Young

Brown: Poems Kevin Young 9781524732547 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House James Brown. John Brown’s raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things ...

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Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels

by Kevin Young

Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels Kevin Young 9780375711619 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, l...

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Dear Darkness: Poems

by Kevin Young

Dear Darkness: Poems Kevin Young 9780307264428 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Delivered in Young’s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern f...

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Jelly Roll: A Blues

by Rondall Brasher

Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review I preface this review by saying that I am an avid fan of the Blues. So, when someone comes along and captures the unmistakable feeling that comes w...

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Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.

by Kevin Young

Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. Kevin Young 9780847836697 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications Explores the powerful ways in which visual art has long provided its ow...

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Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #42

by Ron Kavanaugh

Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #42 Ron Kavanaugh mosaic42 Fiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Interviews Nicole Sealey by Kyla Marshell Rosamond S. King by Anton Nimblett Po...

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For The Confederate Dead

by Kevin Young

For The Confederate Dead Kevin Young 9780375711411 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about Afric...

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The Body’s Question: Poems

by Tracy K. Smith

The Body’s Question: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555973919 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The Body’s Question debuts Tracy K. Smith’s ambitious and engaging new voiceYou are pure appetite. I am pur...

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Blues Poems

by Kevin Young

Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...

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James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin

James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...

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Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition)

by James Baldwin

Giovanni’s Room (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688960 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A deluxe edition of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and a...

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The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)

by Nikky Finney

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology) Nikky Finney 9780820329260 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press The South: to render all that it means to an Af...

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Jelly Roll: A Blues

by Rondall Brasher

Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review Please allow me to set off the mood of this review by quoting one of my favorite Blues songs: I’ve been downhearted baby Ever since th...

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Be Easy: New and Selected Poems

by Adrian Matejka

Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka 9781324097501 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems, Adr...

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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

by Robin Coste Lewis

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Robin Coste Lewis 9781524732585 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A genre-bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migration—an...

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Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 9780143136088 Nonfiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House An new historical anthology...

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Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

by Howard Rambsy II

Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers Howard Rambsy II 9780813944135 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press How have African American writers drawn on bad Bl...

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The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

by Lucille Clifton

The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...

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Gravity, U.S.A.

by Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Gravity, U.S.A. Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780974307022 Poetry Quercus Publishing Plc Quercus Publishing Plc Poetry. Kevin Young says of GRAVITY, U.S.A.: "With her debut, Jacqueline Jones LaMon graces us...

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 000000040525486X Troy Johnson, founder of AALBC.com, is involved with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a NYPL research library and ar...

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