Cover
Also by Kevin Young
Title Page
Copyright
Thataway
HOME RECORDINGS
ONE: THE A TRAIN
Swing
Rumble in the Jungle
Open Letter to Hank Aaron
Mercy Rule
Slump
Stealing
Patter
Flame Tempered
Practice
The Division
Ode to the Harlem Globetrotters
Ashe
Shirts & Skins
I doubt it
TWO: ON THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA & THE SANTA FE
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Western Meadowlark
American Bison
Sunflower
Phys. Ed.
Warm Up
Tumbling
Dodgeball
Bleachers
City
Ice Storm, 1984
History
Dictation
Booty Green
Brown
FIELD RECORDINGS
THREE: NIGHT TRAIN
James Brown at B. B. King's on New Year's Eve
Fishbone
Chuck Taylor All Stars
Checkerboard Vans
Creepers
Doc Martens
John Fluevogs
Lead Belly's First Grave
It
Ode to Big Pun
De La Soul Is Dead
Ode to Ol Dirty Bastard
FOUR: THE CRESCENT LIMITED
B. B. King Plays Oxford, Mississippi
Bass
Triptych for Trayvon Martin
Not Guilty (A Frieze for Sandra Bland)
Limbo (A Fresco for Tamir Rice)
Nightstick (A Mural for Michael Brown)
A Brown Atlanta Boy Watches Basketball on West 4th. Meanwhile, Neo-Nazis March on Charlottesville, Virginia.
Howlin' Wolf
Repast
Hospitality Blues
The Head Waiter's Lament
Reservations
Booker's Place
Waiting
Death's Dictionary
A Glossary of Uppity
Pining, A Definition
Sundaying
Whistle
Money Road
Hive
Notes & Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author