Kevin Youngis the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, includingBlue Laws- Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015(2016), longlisted for the National Book Award;Book of Hours(2014), a finalist for theKingsley Tufts Poetry Awardand winner of theLenore Marshall Prize for Poetryfrom the Academy of American Poets;Ardency- A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels(2011), winner of an American Book Award; andDear Darkness(2008). His collectionJelly Roll- a blues(2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. He isis the Director of theSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker.
“Imagine Emily Dickinson crossed with Bessie Smith and Groucho Marx. The results, to use one of Berryman’s favorite words, are ‘ delicious.’”—Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post
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