Errata
“Errata” from Jelly Roll by Kevin Young, copyright © 2003 by Kevin Young. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Poet Kevin Young b. 1970
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Subjects Relationships, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Separation & Divorce, Love, Living, Music, Men & Women, Desire, Realistic & Complicated
Biography
Three of Kevin Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001), which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003), a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005), a film noir. His first book of poetry, Most Way Home (1995), was selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton, who describes the collection as re-creating “an inner history which is compelling and . . .
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SUBJECT Relationships, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Separation & Divorce, Love, Living, Music, Men & Women, Desire, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
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