Young reads, listens, and observes with acute, questing attention, following 'underground railroads of meaning' and tracing artistic lineages and bursts of fresh invention. “In his first prose book, an expansive and radiantly interpretive exploration of 'black creativity,' proves to be an exceptionally fluent, evocative, deep-diving, and bracing critic. makes a series of sly arguments for black art's centrality in American culture writ large.” - New York Times “Equal parts blues shout, church sermon, interpretive dance, TED talk, lit-crit manifesto and mixtape, the poet Kevin Young's first nonfiction book, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, is an ambitious blast of fact and feeling, a nervy piece of performance art. Who is the liar, who the thief, who is telling whose history, and who is keeping score? Young forces us to contemplate who controls the music.” - David Shields, The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice “In his new work of literary and cultural criticism, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, the accomplished poet Kevin Young unearths, orchestrates, improvises and imagines lies and more lies-in short, American history.
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