{"product_id":"9780345807410","title":"Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Laws \u003c\/i\u003egathers 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from all nine of Kevin Young’s previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems.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\u003e1995) and the amazing “double album” life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2001, “remixed” for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted\u003ci\u003e Jelly Roll: A Blues \u003c\/i\u003e(2003)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand 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 \u003c\/i\u003eAmistad\u003ci\u003e Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e or bold sequences such as “The Ballad of Jim Crow” and a new “Homage to Phillis Wheatley.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012944085232,"sku":"9780345807410","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345807410_p0.jpg?v=1763688901","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345807410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}