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Sport, Violence and Society(1st Edition)
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 232 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-54995-0, ISBN: 0-415-54995-7

" Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies. The book explores organized and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls for a much broader de ..."

Dear Darkness(1st Edition)
Poems
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 216 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26442-8, ISBN: 0-307-26442-4

"1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-307-26442-8 I. Title. P§ss7s'>798I>4s 1°03 8| I '.54— dcz2 2008007957 Manufactured in the United States of America Published September 9, 2008 First Papcrbnrk Edition, Iuly 6, zow for m y father Paul E. Young “ rs ..."

For the Confederate Dead
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71141-1, ISBN: 0-375-71141-4

"... own type than do any ofthe various modern faces that bear his name. lt is named for Robert Granion, a type cutter and printer active in Antwerp, Lyons, Rome, and Paris from 1525 to |59o. Granjon, the boldest and most original designer of his time, was one ot the first to practice the trade of typefounder apart from that. of printer. Composed by Creative Graphics, Allentown, Pennsylvania Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Dexte ..."

Jelly Roll(Reprint)
A Blues
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 208 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70989-0, ISBN: 0-375-70989-4

"In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is ..."

The Best American Poetry 2011
Series Editor David Lehman
von Kevin Young, David Lehman, 2011 2011
Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Scribner
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-8149-2, ISBN: 1-4391-8149-7

"ERIN BELIEU ◇ ◇ ◇ Wherever you're from sucks, and wherever you grew up sucks, and everyone here lives in a converted chocolate factory or deconsecrated church without an ugly lamp or souvenir coffee cup in sight, but only carefully edited objets like the Lacanian soap dispenser in the kitchen that looks like an industrial age dildo, and when you rifle through the bathroom looking for a spare tampon, you discover that even their too ..."

Blues Poems(Updated)
(Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Everyman's Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41458-9, ISBN: 0-375-41458-4

"Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power.The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of ..."

To Repel Ghosts(1st Edition)
The Remix
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71023-0, ISBN: 0-375-71023-X

"Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with fame and h ..."

Jazz Poems(6th Edition)
(Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Everyman's Library
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4251-7, ISBN: 1-4000-4251-8

"Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them.From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the po ..."

John Berryman(1st Edition)
Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #11)
von John Berryman, Kevin Young
Hardcover, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Library Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-931082-69-3, ISBN: 1-931082-69-3

"“Staggering, swaggering, intoxicating”: John Berryman achieved a poetry where (in the words of editor Kevin Young) “protagonists search for a lover or friend, ancestor or listener, with a recklessness that only Whitman allowed himself. . . . Berryman becomes Everyman attempting, falling short of, and often achieving greatness."Young’s selection, the first new selection of Berryman’s poems in over 30 years, encompasses the formal accompl ..."

Stones
(Paperback)
von Kevin Young
Paperback, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13: 978-1-78733-375-8, ISBN: 1-78733-375-2

Bunk(Reprint)
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 576 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-816-7, ISBN: 1-55597-816-9

"Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”―Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers―from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces ..."

Brown
Poems
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3254-7, ISBN: 1-5247-3254-0

"James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: the National Book Award-nominated 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 ..."

Bunk(1st Edition)
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-791-7, ISBN: 1-55597-791-X

Blue Laws(1st Edition)
Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 608 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35150-8, ISBN: 0-385-35150-X

"Longlisted for the National Book AwardA rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with “B sides” and “bonus tracks” from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet. Blue Laws gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin Young’s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his st ..."

Book of Hours(1st Edition)
Poems
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 208 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27224-9, ISBN: 0-307-27224-9

"A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “ ..."

The Grey Album
On the Blackness of Blackness
von Kevin Young
476 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-042-0, ISBN: 1-55597-042-7

"See Carla Kaplan, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Anchor Books, 2003). 27. ... Douglass, Narrative of the Life, chapter 10, Norton Anthology of African American Literature, ed. ... Thanks to Robert O'Meally's “Introduction” to the twenty-second edition of the Narrative for directing me to this text, though I could not locate ... Robert O'Meally, “Introduction,” Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ..."

The Grey Album(1st Edition)
On the Blackness of Blackness
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 476 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-607-1, ISBN: 1-55597-607-7

"*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012* The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Taking its title from Danger Mouse’s pioneering mashup of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles’ The White Album, Kevin Young’s encyclopedic book combines essay, cu ..."

Deviance and Social Control in Sport(1st Edition)
von Michael Atkinson, Kevin Young
Hardcover, 267 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6042-4, ISBN: 0-7360-6042-1

" The world of sport offers a deep—and often-overlooked—source for the study of deviance and its development and impact on society. Deviance and Social Control in Sport challenges preconceived understandings regarding the relationship of deviance and sport and offers a conceptual framework for future work in a variety of sociological subfields. Drawing on their cutting-edge research in criminology and deviance in the discipline of soci ..."

Black Maria(Reprint)
von Kevin Young
Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71050-6, ISBN: 0-375-71050-7

"Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in "Jelly Roll" with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving us a film noir in verse. "Black Maria"-the title is a slang term for a police van as well as a hearse-is a twisting tale of suspicion, passion, mystery, and the city. Young channels the world of detective movies, picking up its lingo and dark glamour in five "reels" of poetry-the adventures of a "soft-boiled" ..."

Jazz Poems
(Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)
von Kevin Young
Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Everyman's Library
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-84159-754-6, ISBN: 1-84159-754-6

"Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat Movement, from the poets of the New York School to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force. We hear it the poems of Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, William ..."

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