Description
The award-winning "lively and excellent collection" (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has "set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines" (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.06w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780375711411
ISBN10: 0375711414
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/09/2008
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.06w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780375711411
ISBN10: 0375711414
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
About the Author
Kevin Young is the author of five previous collections of poetry. His book Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, For the Confederate Dead, won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.