To Repel Ghosts

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375710230

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To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 141777164X

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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leonhard Emmerling
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 382281637X

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Jean-Michel Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling Pdf

Starting as an enigmatic street graffiti artist in New York in the late 1970s, Jean-Michel Basquiat went on to become the shooting star of the art world before succumbing to a drug overdose in 1988. This is his story.

Author : Sandrea Mosses
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738740072

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Vanquishing Ghosts and Demons by Sandrea Mosses Pdf

A powerful, rage-filled entity throws a man across a room. An incubus heralds his attacks with the smell of burnt cookies. A demon disguises itself as a guardian angel and humiliates a woman to the point of madness. Vanquishing Ghosts and Demons explores more than thirty terrifying case studies of a spiritualist medium and her colleagues. The bizarre and horrifying true accounts in this book will have readers on the edge of their seats, aghast at what is "out there." Investigating reports of creatures from the astral plane who have entered our world through portals or by invitation, Sandrea Mosses has encountered treacherous spirits, other-dimensional beings, and full-blown demonic infestations. Having removed other-dimensional predators from people, places, and the land itself, Mosses is living proof that with the proper training and tools, dark entities can be beaten.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106016765924

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To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young Pdf

'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.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Artists
ISBN : OCLC:779972178

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To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young Pdf

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.

Author : Annette Debo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810146891

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The Necessary Past by Annette Debo Pdf

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future “Poets are lyric historians,” proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history necessary to our current moment—poetry with the power to correct the past, realign the present, and create a more hopeful, or even hoped-for, future. The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy. Their works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures like the so-called Venus Hottentot Sara Baartman and the would-be spelling champion MacNolia Cox, the African American Native Guard who fought in the Civil War and the unknown victims of domestic violence, Jack Johnson and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Medgar Evers and those freed and enslaved in the early nineteenth century. These poets shift the power dynamic in revising our shared history, reconfiguring who speaks and whose stories are told, and writing a past that frees readers to change the present and envision a more just future.

Author : David Housewright
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250212184

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From the Grave by David Housewright Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald Suleski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004361034

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Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950 by Ronald Suleski Pdf

In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.

Author : Claudia Rankine,Lisa Sewell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819567280

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American Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine,Lisa Sewell Pdf

The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets

Author : Emily Ruth Rutter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532461

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Black Celebrity by Emily Ruth Rutter Pdf

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253219787

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Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora by Jana Evans Braziel Pdf

Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547720898

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The Book of Ghosts (Collected Horror Tales) by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The "Bold Venture" Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On the Leads Aunt Joanna The White Flag

Author : Howard Rambsy II.
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813944142

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Bad Men by Howard Rambsy II. Pdf

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creativity research for the first time. Employing concepts such as playfulness, productivity, divergent thinking, and problem finding, Rambsy examines the works of a wide range of writers—including Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Paul Beatty, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tyehimba Jess, Trymaine Lee, Adrian Matejka, Aaron McGruder, Evie Shockley, and Kevin Young—who have drawn on notions of bad black men and boys to create innovative and challenging works in a variety of genres. Through groundbreaking readings, Rambsy demonstrates the fruitfulness of viewing black literary art through the lens of creativity research.

Author : K. Hari Kumar
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353573560

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India's Most Haunted by K. Hari Kumar Pdf

There are places where the past lingers, making shapes in the moonlight and blowing in the curtains even as the air goes suddenly still. K. Hari Kumar, bestselling author of spine-chilling horror fiction, brings you the terrifying tales of some of India's most haunted places -- including Bhangarh Fort, Malabar Hill's Tower of Silence and Jammu and Kashmir's notorious Khooni Nala.Whether you read them at night or in daylight, these stories will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.