Brown : poems
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Coyle Free Lib | 811 YO | Checked Out |
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Book
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vii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-161).
Description
"James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: the recently National Book Award-longlisted 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 Kansas high-school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties / minus Malcolm X, or Watts, / barely a march on Washington"--to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's lynching, the poems engage place and the past and their intertwined power. These twenty-eight taut poems and poetic sequences, including an oratorio based on Mississippi "barkeep, activist, waiter" Booker Wright that was performed at Carnegie Hall and the vibrant sonnet cycle "De La Soul Is Dead," about the days when hip-hop was growing up ("we were black then, not yet / African American"), remind us that blackness and brownness tell an ongoing story. A testament to Young's own--and our collective--experience, Brown offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Young, K., & Dunea, M. (2018). Brown: poems (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Young, Kevin, 1970- and Melanie, Dunea. 2018. Brown: Poems. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Young, Kevin, 1970- and Melanie, Dunea. Brown: Poems Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Young, Kevin, and Melanie Dunea. Brown: Poems First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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