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.Ī testament to Young's own-and our collective-experience, Brown offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time. 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. Brown: Poems Paperback Maby Kevin Young (Author) 43 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 13.95 62 Used from 2.19 28 New from 10.46 3 Collectible from 24.95 Paperback 18.00 18 Used from 4.28 21 New from 12.01 James Brown.
sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.” - The New York Timesĭivided 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.įrom "History"-a song of Kansas high-school fixture Mr.
The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. A WOKE & WEAK LEADER Kathy Sheehan blames the rest of America for the gun violence which involves almost exclusively young black and brown males in her city.
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