THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2018 by Kevin Young

Photographs © 2018 Melanie Dunea

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Young, Kevin, [date] author.

Title: Brown : poems / Kevin Young.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017029270 (print) | LCCN 2017030884 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781524732554 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524732547 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Poetry | BISAC: POETRY / American /

African American. | POETRY / American / General.

Classification: LCC PS3575.O798 (ebook) | LCC PS3575.O798 A6 2018 (print) |

DDC 811/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2017029270

Ebook ISBN 9781524732554

Cover illustration by Jason Kernevich

Cover design by Kelly Blair

Illustration by Mack Young

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