Brown: Poems by Kevin YoungMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is my favorite collection from Kevin Young yet!
Publisher blurb: "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."
Kansas boyhood= baseball poetry
Our times= moving, devastating tributes to young black men killed needlessly.
My favorites include all the parts of "De La Soul is Dead," which quotes a different 90s song in each one, and "Hive."
I received an advanced reader copy of this from the publisher through Edelweiss. It comes out April 17, 2018.
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