Blue Laws
Author: Young, Kevin
ISBN: 9780345807410
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2017
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Plt;IPgt;Jelly RollPlt;/IPgt; and Plt;IPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/IPgt;, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with Pquot;B sidesPquot; and Pquot;bonus tracksPquot; from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.
Plt;bPgt;Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Plt;iPgt;Jelly RollPlt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/iPgt;, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with Pquot;B sidesPquot; and Pquot;bonus tracksPquot; from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Blue LawsPlt;/iPgt; gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin YoungP#39;s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his stunning lyric debut (Plt;iPgt;Most Way Home,Plt;/iPgt; 1995) and the amazing Pquot;double albumPquot; life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2001;Pquot;remixedPquot; for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted Plt;iPgt;Jelly Roll: A BluesPlt;/iPgt; (2003) and his recent forays into adult grief and the joys of birth in Plt;iPgt;Dear Darkness Plt;/iPgt;(2008) and Plt;iPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/iPgt; (2014), this collection provides a grand tour of a poet whose personal poems and political poems are equally riveting. Together with wonderful outtakes and previously unseen blues, the profoundly felt poems here of family, Southern food, and loss are of a piece with the depth of personal sensibility and humanity found in his Plt;iPgt;Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad RebelsPlt;/iPgt; or bold sequences such as Pquot;The Ballad of Jim CrowPquot; and a new Pquot;Homage to Phillis Wheatley.Pquot;
ISBN: 9780345807410
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2017
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Plt;IPgt;Jelly RollPlt;/IPgt; and Plt;IPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/IPgt;, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with Pquot;B sidesPquot; and Pquot;bonus tracksPquot; from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.
Plt;bPgt;Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Plt;iPgt;Jelly RollPlt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/iPgt;, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with Pquot;B sidesPquot; and Pquot;bonus tracksPquot; from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Blue LawsPlt;/iPgt; gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin YoungP#39;s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his stunning lyric debut (Plt;iPgt;Most Way Home,Plt;/iPgt; 1995) and the amazing Pquot;double albumPquot; life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2001;Pquot;remixedPquot; for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted Plt;iPgt;Jelly Roll: A BluesPlt;/iPgt; (2003) and his recent forays into adult grief and the joys of birth in Plt;iPgt;Dear Darkness Plt;/iPgt;(2008) and Plt;iPgt;Book of HoursPlt;/iPgt; (2014), this collection provides a grand tour of a poet whose personal poems and political poems are equally riveting. Together with wonderful outtakes and previously unseen blues, the profoundly felt poems here of family, Southern food, and loss are of a piece with the depth of personal sensibility and humanity found in his Plt;iPgt;Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad RebelsPlt;/iPgt; or bold sequences such as Pquot;The Ballad of Jim CrowPquot; and a new Pquot;Homage to Phillis Wheatley.Pquot;
