(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781598536669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2020
Publisher: The Library of America
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A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present
(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780375711619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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"Being an epic account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage and capture near Long Island, New York; with phrenological studies of several of the surviving Africans."
(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780345807410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780375711886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781524711146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780307264428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780375711411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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In this surprising book, the poet manages embrace the contradictions of the "Confederate" legacy and the troubled nation where that legacy still lingers.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781483587417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780375709890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Kevin Young's jaunty, intimate collection invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration.
(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780375710506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Young channels the world of detective movies, picking up its lingo and dark glamor in five "reels" of poetry, for the adventures of a "soft-boiled" private eye, known as A.K.A. Jones, and an ingenue turned femme fatale, Delilah Redbone, who's come to town from down south.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781841597584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Everyman
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The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781524732547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: [Young] meditates on all things 'brown' in this ... 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"--
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781984850423
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2022
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781841597546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2006
Publisher: Everyman
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Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had an influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a collection of jazz poems. 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 literary force.
(Paperback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781787333758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th November 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Kevin Young
ISBN: 9780847836697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2024
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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