Young Kevin - Brown Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. Vital and sophisticated sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed. The New York Times 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 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. These 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. A testament to Young's own and our collective experience Brown offers beautiful sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.
Title: Brown Poems
Author(s): Young Kevin
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781524711146
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 3/3/2020
Category: Poetry