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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | Book of Hours(Reprint) Poems by Kevin Young Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71188-6, ISBN: 0-375-71188-0 "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 “ ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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" ..." |
 | | Brown(Reprint) Poems by Kevin Young Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2020 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-1114-6, ISBN: 1-5247-1114-4 "James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection--now in paperback.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 ..." |
 | | Blue Laws(Reprint) Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80741-0, ISBN: 0-345-80741-3 "Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Jelly Roll and Book of Hours, a 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 uncollec ..." |
 | | Jacob Lawrence(Reprint) The Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young, Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-040-0, ISBN: 1-63345-040-6 "Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Blood in the Hills(Reprint) A History of Violence in Appalachia (New Directions In Southern History) by Bruce E. Stewart, Kevin T. Barksdale, Paul H. Rakes, Kathryn Shively Meier, Tyler Boulware, John C. Inscoe, Katherine Ledford, Durwood Dunn, Mary E. Engel, Rand Dotson, Kevin Young, Richard D. Starnes, Kenneth R. Bailey Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 2018 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7582-9, ISBN: 0-8131-7582-8 "To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with t ..." |
 | | To Repel Ghosts(Reprint) Five Sides in B Minor by Kevin Young Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 2002 by Steerforth ISBN-13: 978-1-58195-204-9, ISBN: 1-58195-204-X "ART-WORLD PHENOMENON Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the harmony and discord of Basquiat’s canvases, adapting them as a bass line to improvise and play upon. Young renders ambitious, celebratory poetry of the everyday and the exalted — a double-album in verse, a jazz symphony, a hip-hop o ..." |
 | | The Hungry Ear(Reprint) Poems of Food and Drink by Kevin Young Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-768-2, ISBN: 1-60819-768-9 "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 Art of Losing(Reprint) Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-466-7, ISBN: 1-60819-466-3 "Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to it: for love and loss. Although collections of love poetry abound, there are very few anthologies for the grieving. In The Art of Losing, editor Kevin Young Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mou ..." |
 | | Ardency(Reprint) A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Lowell Young Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71161-9, ISBN: 0-375-71161-9 |