Brown
Author: Young, Kevin
ISBN: 9781524711146
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 03 Mar 2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
James Brown. John BrownP#39;s raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Plt;IPgt;Blue Laws Plt;/IPgt;meditates on all things Pquot;brownPquot; in this powerful new collection--now in paperback.
Plt;bPgt;James Brown. John BrownP#39;s raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Plt;iPgt;Blue Laws Plt;/iPgt;meditates on all things Pquot;brownPquot; in this powerful new collection.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.P#8221; P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The New York TimesPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Divided into Pquot;Home RecordingsPquot; and Pquot;Field Recordings,Pquot; Plt;iPgt;BrownPlt;/iPgt; 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. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;From Pquot;HistoryPquot;P#8212;a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students Pquot;the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on WashingtonPquot;P#8212;to Pquot;Money Road,Pquot; a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett TillP#39;s lynching, the poems engage place and the past and their intertwined power. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;These thirty-two taut poems and poetic sequences, including an oratorio based on Mississippi Pquot;barkeep, activist, waiterPquot; Booker Wright that was performed at Carnegie Hall and the vibrant sonnet cycle Pquot;De La Soul Is Dead,Pquot; about the days when hip-hop was growing up (Pquot;we were black then, not yet / African AmericanPquot;), remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A testament to YoungP#39;s ownP#8212;and our collectiveP#8212;experience, Plt;iPgt;BrownPlt;/iPgt; offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.
ISBN: 9781524711146
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 03 Mar 2020
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
James Brown. John BrownP#39;s raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Plt;IPgt;Blue Laws Plt;/IPgt;meditates on all things Pquot;brownPquot; in this powerful new collection--now in paperback.
Plt;bPgt;James Brown. John BrownP#39;s raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Plt;iPgt;Blue Laws Plt;/iPgt;meditates on all things Pquot;brownPquot; in this powerful new collection.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.P#8221; P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The New York TimesPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Divided into Pquot;Home RecordingsPquot; and Pquot;Field Recordings,Pquot; Plt;iPgt;BrownPlt;/iPgt; 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. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;From Pquot;HistoryPquot;P#8212;a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students Pquot;the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on WashingtonPquot;P#8212;to Pquot;Money Road,Pquot; a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett TillP#39;s lynching, the poems engage place and the past and their intertwined power. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;These thirty-two taut poems and poetic sequences, including an oratorio based on Mississippi Pquot;barkeep, activist, waiterPquot; Booker Wright that was performed at Carnegie Hall and the vibrant sonnet cycle Pquot;De La Soul Is Dead,Pquot; about the days when hip-hop was growing up (Pquot;we were black then, not yet / African AmericanPquot;), remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A testament to YoungP#39;s ownP#8212;and our collectiveP#8212;experience, Plt;iPgt;BrownPlt;/iPgt; offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.
