Ebook {Epub PDF} Brown: Poems by Kevin Young

 · Kevin Young’s necessary new book of witness creates a parade through time, and I love a parade. Especially one with such good music — the poems in Brown dance through bebop and into James Brown’s megafunk Every line of Brown is aware that this storm must scare the hell out of people who have locked their doors and kneel before Fox News Channel asking God what went wrong. Brown: Poems audiobook written by Kevin Young. Narrated by Kevin Young. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today! Kevin Young's poetry collections include Brown (Alfred A. Knopf, ) and Book of Hours (Alfred A. Knopf, ), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in

Pick up Brown, Kevin Young's ninth collection of poems, and you'd think writing poetry is easy.I don't know his process, but the result feels effortless. Each poem is tight to its subject, spare and musical in its language, and specific but resonates with significance in social, political, or historical realms. A testament to Young's own—and our collective—experience, Brown offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time. James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University and, while a student there, became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of many books of poetry, including.

Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things 'brown' in this Brown: Poems by Kevin Young | Editorial Reviews. Brown: PoemsBy Kevin YoungAlfred A. Knopf, The poems of Kevin Young’s new collection Brown take a hard but often affectionate look at the poet’s Midwestern roots, wrestling with his attachment to, and disassociation from, the land of his childhood. Icons from all corners of Black public life – blues singers, sports legends, advocates and activists — take a central place in the collection’s fractured, contradictory, rustic landscape. KEVIN YOUNG is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for The New Yorker. He is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including Blue Laws: Selected Uncollected Poems , longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets.