Jelly Roll
by Young, Kevin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0375414606
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414602
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Kevin Young’s first book, Most Way Home , was selected for the National Poetry Series and won the Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. His second book of poems, To Repel Ghosts , a “double album” based on the work of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, was a finalist for the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Young’s poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , The Kenyon Review , and Callaloo . He is editor of the anthology Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers and the forthcoming Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet anthology Blues Poems . A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Young is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1194
- Title
- Jelly Roll
- Author
- Young, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375414606
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414602
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 186
- Size
- 21 cm
- Keywords
- African American; African Americans; African-American; American; Blues; Blues (Music); Fiction; Genres & Styles; Love; Music; Poetry; Subjects & Themes; Valentine's Day
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