{"product_id":"brown-poems-paperback","title":"Brown: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eBlue Laws \u003c\/i\u003emeditates on all things \"brown\" in this powerful new collection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDivided into \"Home Recordings\" and \"Field Recordings,\" \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese thirty-two 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA testament to Young's own--and our collective--experience, \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKEVIN YOUNG is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eBlue Laws: Selected \u0026amp; Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, \u003c\/i\u003e longlisted for the National Book Award; and \u003ci\u003eBook of Hours, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Young's book \u003ci\u003eBunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, was longlisted for the National Book Award and appeared on many best of lists for 2017. His collection \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll: A Blues\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for Poetry. His nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eThe Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the editor of eight other collections and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701505101887,"sku":"9781524711146","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b71158752366b9af3b6b379e29786065.webp?v=1765020903","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/brown-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}