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  | | 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from all nine of Kevin Young’s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems.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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 “ ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Sport, Social Development and Peace (Research in the Sociology of Sport) by Kevin Young, Chiaki Okada Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2014 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78350-885-3, ISBN: 1-78350-885-X "In recent years, sport has attracted considerable attention as an effective means of combating such local and global issues as war and conflict, poverty, ethnic reconciliation, and gender conflicts. Sport has been shown to be an effective tool or triggering device compared to the other development sectors, especially when donors can apply grassroots activities to the development contexts in thoughtful and continuing ways. This book fill ..." |
 | | Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture (Research in the Sociology of Sport) by Kevin Young, Michael Atkinson Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 2012 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78052-296-8, ISBN: 1-78052-296-7 "This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting 'student friendly' engaging chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing language. It outlines contemporary, cutting-edge approaches in qualitative research methods that students in undergraduate programs in sociology and sociology of sport, as well as, fo ..." |
 | | Sociology of Sport A Global Subdiscipline in Review (Research in the Sociology of Sport) by Kevin Young Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2016 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78635-050-3, ISBN: 1-78635-050-5 "The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse. Many countries now boast strong scholars in the field and this volume reflects the fascinating research being done. This innovative volume is dedicated to a review of the state of the area by region, and country in some cases. For instance, Latin America is expanding widely in the field, and Korea and Japan have had vibrant Sociolo ..." |
 | | Sam Durant by Calif. Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Michael Darling, Rita Kersting and Sam Durant by Sam Durant, Michael Darling, Rita Kersting, Kevin Young Hardcover, 119 Pages, Published 2002 by Museum Of Contemporary Art ISBN-13: 978-0-914357-81-0, ISBN: 0-914357-81-6 |
 | | Stones Poems (Hardback) by Kevin Young Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3256-1, ISBN: 1-5247-3256-7 "" Whether it's the Louisiana summer's fireflies in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that comprises our flickering precarious ..." |
 | | Afrofuturism A History of Black Futures (Hardback) by Kevin M. Strait, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Kevin Young, Vernon Reid Hardcover, 217 Pages, Published 2023 by Penguin Lcc Us Mrz 2023 ISBN-13: 978-1-58834-740-4, ISBN: 1-58834-740-0 "A History of Black Futures Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture Kevin M. Strait, Kinshasha Holman Conwill. RENDERING BLACK FUTURES MICHELLE JOAN WILKINSON B y envisioning designs for yet- to - be -. 142 Rendering Black Futures Michelle Joan ..." |
 | | Sport, Violence and Society (Hardback) by Kevin Young Hardcover, Published 2019 by Taylor And Francis 2019-04-09, London ISBN-13: 978-1-138-83070-7, ISBN: 1-138-83070-4 |
 | | Southern Communities Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South by Steven E. Nash, Bruce E. Stewart, Kevin Young, Stephen Berry, Ras Michael Brown, Judkin Browning, Katharine S. Dahlstrand, Mary Ella Engel, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, George Justice, Luke Manget, Samuel B. Mcguire, Barton A. Myers, Kyle Osborn, Robert C. Poister, Katherine Rohrer Hardcover, 294 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5511-5, ISBN: 0-8203-5511-9 "Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in the day-to-day lives of all segments of society. These social networks sometimes unite and sometimes divide people, they can mirror or transcend political boundaries, and they may exist solely within the cultures of like-minded people.This volume explores the nature of southern c ..." |
 | | Bunk The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Thorndike Large Print Lifestyles) by Kevin Young Hardcover, Published 2018 by Thorndike Press Large Print, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-5021-0, ISBN: 1-4328-5021-0 |
 | | Robert Rauschenberg(Illustrated) Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: Limited Edition by Leah Dickerman, Kevin Young, Robert Rauschenberg, Robin Lewis Hardcover, 82 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-957-9, ISBN: 0-87070-957-7 "Published in a limited edition of just 500 copies, Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno is a clothbound clamshell box containing a facsimile edition of Rauschenberg’s series of drawings from 1958–60, each reproduced at actual size on individual sheets. Rauschenberg made one drawing for each Canto, or section, of Dante’s poem The Inferno (1308–1321). Together they are a virtual encyclopedia of modern-day ima ..." |
 | | Gasser the Unhappy Reindeer (And How He Got Happy Again) (A Very Noble Gas) by Kevin Young Hardcover, 28 Pages, Published 2016 by Bookbaby ISBN-13: 978-1-4835-8741-7, ISBN: 1-4835-8741-X "The story centers on a young Reindeer, named Gasser, who has aspirations to become a full fledged member of Santa’s sleigh team. He is an adequate flyer but unfortunately has random bouts of flatulence which, for obvious reasons, have made him somewhat undesirable for regular service. However, on this particular Christmas eve, special circumstances create the opportunity young Gasser has been dreaming of and more. And, not only does ..." |
 | | The Weary Blues(Updated) by Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, Kevin Young Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35297-0, ISBN: 0-385-35297-2 "Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening “Proem” (prologue poem)—“I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa”—Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time whe ..." |
 | | Jacob Lawrence(Reprint) The Migration Series by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jodi Roberts, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Young Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-964-7, ISBN: 0-87070-964-X "In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..." |
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