{"product_id":"blue-laws-selected-and-uncollected-poems-1995-2015-9780345807410","title":"Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBook of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with \"B sides\" and \"bonus tracks\" from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Laws\u003c\/i\u003e gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin Young's previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his stunning lyric debut (\u003ci\u003eMost Way Home, \u003c\/i\u003e 1995) and the amazing \"double album\" life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2001;\"remixed\" for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll: A Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and his recent forays into adult grief and the joys of birth in \u003ci\u003eDear Darkness \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and \u003ci\u003eBook of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), this collection provides a grand tour of a poet whose personal poems and political poems are equally riveting. Together with wonderful outtakes and previously unseen blues, the profoundly felt poems here of family, Southern food, and loss are of a piece with the depth of personal sensibility and humanity found in his \u003ci\u003eArdency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e or bold sequences such as \"The Ballad of Jim Crow\" and a new \"Homage to Phillis Wheatley.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345807410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Kevin Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848901357749,"sku":"9780345807410","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b1e69246-158a-4c17-9678-58c83d559bce.jpg?v=1732634190","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blue-laws-selected-and-uncollected-poems-1995-2015-9780345807410","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}