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001			2017029270
003			DLC
005			20190524125309.0
008			170623s2018 nyua b 000 p eng
010			_a 2017029270
020			_a9781524732547 (hardcover)
020			_z9781524732554 (ebook)
042			_apcc
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aPS3575.O798 _bA6 2018
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084			_aPOE005050 _aPOE005010 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aYoung, Kevin, _d1970-
240	1	0	_aPoems. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aBrown : _bpoems / _cKevin Young ; photographs by Melanie Dunea.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
300			_avii, 161 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [159]-161).
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vPoetry.
650		7	_aPOETRY / American / African American. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOETRY / American / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aDunea, Melanie,
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aYoung, Kevin, 1970- author. _tBrown _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 _z9781524732554 _w(DLC) 2017030884
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