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Library of America 333Young, Kevin
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOUYoung, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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Summary: A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOUYoung, Kevin.
Contents: Honeymoon rain -- Stone angels -- Low noon -- Alibi saloon -- Hemlock Lane -- End titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Summary: Essays, cultural criticism, and lyrical observations illuminate the African American tradition of tall-tale storytelling while arguing that African American culture and art are central to American life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 YOUYoung, Kevin
Summary: "Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 YOUSummary: "The forthcoming LOA collection, edited by distinguished poet and scholar of American poetry Kevin Young, will embrace the entire wide-ranging tradition of African American poetry from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present, and will be representative of many styles, schools, periods, and regions. Familiar poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 AFRHughes, Langston
Summary: "Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HUGSummary: "An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021