To Repel Ghosts: The Remix - Paperback
by Kevin Young
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375710230ISBN-10:037571023XUPC:9780375710230Book Category:Poetry, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Artists, Architects, Photographers, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.94 x 6.14 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCNQ6MSQQ1
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"),...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375710230ISBN-10:037571023XUPC:9780375710230Book Category:Poetry, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Artists, Architects, Photographers, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.94 x 6.14 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCNQ6MSQQ1
Kevin Young is the author of four previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America's John Berryman: Selected Poems, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthology Blues Poems, and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers. His book Jelly Roll was finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Young,...
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