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  | | Sport, Violence and Society(1st Edition) by Kevin Young Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-54995-0, ISBN: 0-415-54995-7 " Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies. The book explores organized and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls for a much broader de ..." |
 | | Dear Darkness(1st Edition) Poems by Kevin Young Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2010 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26442-8, ISBN: 0-307-26442-4 "1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-307-26442-8 I. Title. P§ss7s'>798I>4s 1°03 8| I '.54— dcz2 2008007957 Manufactured in the United States of America Published September 9, 2008 First Papcrbnrk Edition, Iuly 6, zow for m y father Paul E. Young “ rs ..." |
 | | For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71141-1, ISBN: 0-375-71141-4 "... own type than do any ofthe various modern faces that bear his name. lt is named for Robert Granion, a type cutter and printer active in Antwerp, Lyons, Rome, and Paris from 1525 to |59o. Granjon, the boldest and most original designer of his time, was one ot the first to practice the trade of typefounder apart from that. of printer. Composed by Creative Graphics, Allentown, Pennsylvania Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Dexte ..." |
 | | Jelly Roll(Reprint) A Blues by Kevin Young Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70989-0, ISBN: 0-375-70989-4 "In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is ..." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2011 Series Editor David Lehman by Kevin Young, David Lehman, 2011 2011 Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Scribner Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-8149-2, ISBN: 1-4391-8149-7 "ERIN BELIEU ◇ ◇ ◇ Wherever you're from sucks, and wherever you grew up sucks, and everyone here lives in a converted chocolate factory or deconsecrated church without an ugly lamp or souvenir coffee cup in sight, but only carefully edited objets like the Lacanian soap dispenser in the kitchen that looks like an industrial age dildo, and when you rifle through the bathroom looking for a spare tampon, you discover that even their too ..." |
 | | The Body's Question(1st Edition) Poems by Tracy K. Smith, Kevin Young . Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2003 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-391-9, ISBN: 1-55597-391-4 "Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, The Body's Question debuts Tracy K. Smith's ambitious and engaging new voiceYou are pure appetite. I am pureAppetite. You are a phantomIn that far-off city where daylightClimbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone. --from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected ..." |
 | | Book of Hours(1st Edition) Poems by Kevin Young Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27224-9, ISBN: 0-307-27224-9 "A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “ ..." |
 | | Stones (Paperback) by Kevin Young Paperback, Published 2021 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-1-78733-375-8, ISBN: 1-78733-375-2 |
 | | Brown Poems by Kevin Young Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2018 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3254-7, ISBN: 1-5247-3254-0 "James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: the National Book Award-nominated author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.Divided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History"--a song of ..." |
 | | Bunk(Reprint) The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2018 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-816-7, ISBN: 1-55597-816-9 "Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”―Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers―from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces ..." |
 | | Bunk(1st Edition) The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2017 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-791-7, ISBN: 1-55597-791-X "Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”―Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers―from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces ..." |
 | | Blue Laws(1st Edition) Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2016 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35150-8, ISBN: 0-385-35150-X "Longlisted for the National Book AwardA rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with “B sides” and “bonus tracks” from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet. Blue Laws gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin Young’s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his st ..." |
 | | The Grey Album(1st Edition) On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young Paperback, 476 Pages, Published 2012 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-607-1, ISBN: 1-55597-607-7 "*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Taking its title from Danger Mouse’s pioneering mashup of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles’ The White Album, Kevin Young’s encyclopedic book combines essay, cu ..." |
 | | Deviance and Social Control in Sport(1st Edition) by Michael Atkinson, Kevin Young Hardcover, 267 Pages, Published 2008 by Human Kinetics Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6042-4, ISBN: 0-7360-6042-1 " The world of sport offers a deep—and often-overlooked—source for the study of deviance and its development and impact on society. Deviance and Social Control in Sport challenges preconceived understandings regarding the relationship of deviance and sport and offers a conceptual framework for future work in a variety of sociological subfields. Drawing on their cutting-edge research in criminology and deviance in the discipline of soci ..." |
 | | Black Maria(Reprint) by Kevin Young Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71050-6, ISBN: 0-375-71050-7 "Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in "Jelly Roll" with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving us a film noir in verse. "Black Maria"-the title is a slang term for a police van as well as a hearse-is a twisting tale of suspicion, passion, mystery, and the city. Young channels the world of detective movies, picking up its lingo and dark glamour in five "reels" of poetry-the adventures of a "soft-boiled" ..." |
 | | Jazz Poems (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) by Kevin Young Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Everyman's Library International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-84159-754-6, ISBN: 1-84159-754-6 "Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat Movement, from the poets of the New York School to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force. We hear it the poems of Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, William ..." |
 | | Jelly Roll(1st Edition) A Blues by Kevin Young Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41460-2, ISBN: 0-375-41460-6 "In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is ..." |
 | | The Hungry Ear(1st Edition) Poems of Food and Drink by Kevin Young, Robert Young, Bloomsbury Usa, Linda E. Mitchell Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-551-0, ISBN: 1-60819-551-1 "Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food make these satisfactions explicit and complete.Of course, pages can and have been filled about food's elemental pleasures. And we all know food is more than food: it's identity and cultur ..." |
 | | The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(1st Edition) (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, Kevin Young, Toni Morrison, Michael S. Glaser Hardcover, 720 Pages, Published 2012 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-934414-90-3, ISBN: 1-934414-90-5 "Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry ""The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010" may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--"Publishers Weekly""All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--"Publishers Weekly""If you only read one poetry book in 2012, "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton" ought to be it."--NPR"The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just f ..." |
 | | TRIBAL PLAY(4th Edition) SUBCULTURAL JOURNEYS THROUGH SPORT, Volume 4 (Research in the Sociology of Sport) by Kevin Young, Michael Atkinson Hardcover, 390 Pages, Published 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-7623-1293-1, ISBN: 0-7623-1293-9 "Traceable as far back as the work of the path-breaking Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s and 1930s, subculture and counterculture have long been conceptual staples of the discipline. Implemented originally to designate and describe smaller, often deviant or delinquent, groups within larger social communities, the terms gained pace in their use in mid-twentieth century criminological research, and especially with the development o ..." |
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