Books
Poetry Books - Signed by Award Winning Author, Kevin Young
- Item Number
- 123
- Estimated Value
- 90 USD
- Sold
- 60 USD to chocoloco
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
Three autographed books of works by Kevin Young.
This set includes: Blue Laws (hardcopy); The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink (paperback); and Jelly Roll: A Blues (paperback).
Kevin Young is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose including: Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Feb 2016); Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels; and Dear Darkness. His collection Jelly Roll: A Blues was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award or Poetry. Young's nonfiction book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Award; it was also a New York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
Kevin is a close family friend of Aaron and Niesha Foster, penning a poem for their wedding ceremony which is printed in his latest book, Blue Laws.
Donated By:
Niesha Foster
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