- Gebundene Ausgabe: 350 Seiten
- Verlag: Zoland Books; Auflage: 1st (Juni 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1581950330
- ISBN-13: 978-1581950335
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16 x 2,9 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.308.704 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Poets have long been inspired by works of art--think of Keats, Auden, and Frank O'Hara--but Young breaks the mold, going all-out in a book-length homage to the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who flared brilliantly but all too briefly in the flush, coked-up 1980s. Young riffs masterfully on the bold images and political themes of Basquiat's groundbreaking work and ponders the artist's roller-coaster life and tragic death at age 28. In quickly scanned but resonant poems built out of short lines and sharply struck notes, Young revels in how Basquiat brought the street to the canvas in his use of graffitilike drawings and painted words, in his to-the-bone dissections of racial stereotypes, and in his shrewd tributes to black heroes. But he also rails against the forces that brought the artist down. Spiked with documentary detail and flirting with hagiography, Young's magnum opus scats, talks, shouts, and sings a story that encompasses not only one man's tragedy but that of a nation: the persistence and virulence of racism. Donna Seaman
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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excellent
25. Dezember 2003
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This book is a powerful rumination on Basquiat's life and themes. The poetry is consistantly alive and amazingly free of flab for a book of over 300 pages.
Young takes the difficult task of responding to visual art in words and succeeds admirably. The selection of Basquiat as the subject is a suprisingly good one that allows Young to draw on the words and themes important to Basquiat. Young's use of Basquiat's painted slogans ties the experience of reading the book to the experience of viewing the paintings in an unmediated way. Basquiat's esoteric painted slogans work well in Young's clear accessible poems.
Basquiat's touchstones of boxing and jazz allow for detours that hint back to Basquiat's life and art. The long poem on the boxer Jack Johnson is particularly good.
3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
rich and rewarding
2. Mai 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I'm mystified by some of these negative comments, which all seem to be either about some meta-conversation about the book (was Basquiat exploited? sure, but not by Kevin Young!) or its author (how the hell does anyone here know how poor or rich he was growing up?). Those who have actually read the book know how thoughtful, gorgous and rich it is; those who have not yet ought to, especially before writing barely-literate rants against it.
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To repel stupid reviews
25. Juni 2001
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Do Not Believe The Previous Reviewer. Of course this book is words, it's a book! Young, whose first book Most Way Home was impressive if uneven, has taken quite a leap forward in his poetic life. Basquiat morphs into something other than his paintings, he becomes Young's poems, he becomes a monster and a genius, he becomes something close to mythic.
This is not a picture book, you can't read poetry expecting to see images of the dead man's paintings, if you only want to read a description go and get a gallery catalogue!
Instead, here, immerse yourself in Kevin Young, a poet who imagines America through the prism of a single, talented young man. A masterful work (that I was lucky enough to see just before its publication, lucky me!). Cheers.
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