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Delivered in Young’s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings “bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit” (San Francisco Chronicle).
About the Author
Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992-1994), and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author ofMost Way Home,To Repel Ghosts,Jelly Roll,Black Maria,For The Confederate Dead,Dear Darkness, and editor ofGiant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers;Blues Poems; Jazz PoemsandJohn Berryman's Selected Poems.His Black Cat Blues, originally published inThe Virginia Quarterly Review, was included inThe Best American Poetry 2005. Young's poetry has appeared inThe New Yorker,Poetry Magazine,The Paris Review,Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. In 2007, he served as guest editor for an issue ofPloughshares. He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.His 2003 book of poemsJelly Rollwas a finalist for the National Book Award.After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University, Young now teaches writing at Emory University, where he is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a large collection of first and rare editions of poetry in English.
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