To Repel Ghosts
To Repel Ghosts

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2005-09-27

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 037571023X

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Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with fame and heroin, mourning his untimely death, and celebrating his legacy. Along the way Young riffs on Basquiat's paintings and sayings, on the music he loved, on the artists he ran with (Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, among them), and on the black heroes (Charlie Parker, Muhammad Ali, Billie Holiday) who inspired him. Young's poetic channeling of Basquiat--a jostling, poignant brand of downtownspeak--makes for an urban epic in the tradition of Langston Hughes's "A Dream Deferred." To Repel Ghosts, along with Young's Jelly Roll: A Blues and Black Maria, his recent book of film noir verse, forms an American trilogy--Devil's Music--that explores other art forms through poetry. In its creation, Yound has become a poet whose work speaks both for and beyond his genre, with a music all its own.

To Repel Ghosts
To Repel Ghosts

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Zoland Books, Incorporated

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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'80s art-world phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the harmony and discord of Basquiat's canvases, adapting them as a bass line to improvise and play upon. Author of the award-winning Most Way Home, Kevin Young here renders ambitious, celebratory poetry of the everyday and the exalted -- a double-album in verse, a jazz symphony, a hip-hop opera -- taking Basquiat's funkified history and making it sing.

From the Grave
From the Grave

Author: David Housewright

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1250212189

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A past case comes back to haunt Twin Cities P.I. McKenzie as a stolen sum of money threatens to resurface in From the Grave, the next mystery in David Housewright’s award-winning series. Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first love Shelby Dunston attends a public reading by a psychic medium with the hope of connecting with her grandfather one final time. Instead, she hears McKenzie’s name spoken by the psychic in connection with a huge sum of stolen—and missing—money. Caught in a world of psychic mediums, with a man from his past with a stake in the future, and more than one party willing to go to great and deadly lengths to get involved, McKenzie must figure out just how much he’s willing to believe—like his life depends on it—before everything takes a much darker turn.

To Repel Ghosts
To Repel Ghosts

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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As a poet, Young is as dazzlingly agile and as hard-hitting as Jack Johnson in his prime.-Lorenzo Thomas. Kevin Young has written a big and audacious book. To Repel Ghosts is more than a double album of riffs, songs, laments, outbursts, raps, and tunes. It is more than a book of poems about the tragic life of Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is more than a history of black genius. To Repel Ghosts is a postmodern masterpiece that challenges those who believe we have reached the end of history.-John Yau.

Shooting Ghosts
Shooting Ghosts

Author: Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret.)

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0399562559

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"A majestic book."--Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors are so committed to transparency, admitting readers into the dark crevices of their isolation."--Wall St Journal Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. But when Sergeant T. J. Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, he and conflict photographer Finbarr O’Reilly returned home, each to face the fallout of war in their own way. Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption. Shooting Ghosts looks at the horrors of war directly, but then turns to a journey that draws on our growing understanding of what recovery takes, charting the ways two survivors have found to calm the ghosts and reclaim a measure of peace.

Black Cats and Evil Eyes
Black Cats and Evil Eyes

Author: Chloe Rhodes

Publisher: Michael O'Mara

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1843179164

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This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.