Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin Young -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Blue Laws From Most Way Home [1995]

Reward How to Make Rain Visiting Home Beauty From The Spectacle

The Thin Man’s Apprentices The Escape Artist Pachyderm Atlas

Revival From Saying Grace

The Living The Slaughter The Kitchen The Quench The Preserving

Whatever You Want Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood, Pennsylvania Everywhere Is Out of Town Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary Quivira City Limits Letters from the North Star

Glossolalia [1997] From to Repel Ghosts [2001; Remix 2005]

Negative Campbell’s Black Bean Soup Poison Oasis (1981) Cadillac Moon (1981) Brothers Sausage (1983) Rinso From Jack Johnson

Black Jack (b. 31 March 1878) The Upset (26 December 1908) The Crown (4 July 1910) The Ring (13 May 1913) The Fix (5 April 1915) Exhibitions The Race (d. 10 June 1945)

Hollywood Africans (1983) Onion Gum (1983) Langston Hughes Charlie Chan on Horn Stardust Godchild Miles Davis [bonus track] Riddle Me This Batman Riding with Death (1988) Eroica (1988) Shrine Outside Basquiat’s Studio, September 1988 Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat Retrospective

From Jelly Roll: A Blues [2003]

Epithalamion Cakewalk Dixieland Ditty Early Blues Ragtime Boasts Song of Smoke Errata Player Piano Locomotive Songs Autumn Song Busking From Sleepwalking Psalms

1. Every day since 3. Soon I’ll thank you 5. When I said I didn’t mind 6. Stumbling home 7. There are no more saints

Chorale Slide Guitar Requiem Vows Evensong Parlor Song Threnody Cotillion Late Blues Litany Elegy, Niagara Falls

Chamber Music [Jelly Roll Outtakes, 1999–2004]

Duet Hurricane Song Flamenco Saeta Chamber Music Strays Election Day Song of Fall

From Black Maria [2005]

The Set-up The Chase Speakeasy The Office The Hush The Alias Stills (“With her, guilty”) Stills (“When we met”) The Suspects The Boss The Gunsel Stills (“We undress shy”) Night Cap The Suit The Heist The Escape The Alibi The Killer The Ball Midnight Ramble The Dive The Payback Soundtrack Credits

From For the Confederate Dead [2007]

Elegy for Miss Brooks The Ballad of Jim Crow

Nativity Trinity Temptation Tabernacle Baptism Ascension Descent Magnificat

Guernica Prayer Americana Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly For the Confederate Dead Guinea Gall April in Paris Postscripts African Elegy [Much Things to Say]

The News [Stop That Train] Immunizations [Lively Up Yourself] The Funeral Road [Babylon by Bus] Burial [No Woman No Cry] Sabbath [Wait in Vain] Stone Town [High Tide or Low Tide] Catch a Fire Redemption Song Eulogy [People Get Ready] One Love

Commencement

Homage to Phillis Wheatley [1998–2011]

On Being Brought from Africa to America On Imagination An Hymn to the Morning On the Affray in King-Street, on the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770 Autopsy Examination On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 To Mr. and Mrs. ———, on the Death of Their Infant Son Emancipation Elegy on Leaving ——— Massachusetts Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser, 8 December 1784 A Farewel to America

From Dear Darkness [2008]

Nineteen Seventy-Five Tuff Buddies Aunties From Pallbearing

Pallbearing Victuals Eulogy

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Insurance Casting Black Cat Blues Something Borrowed Blues Flash Flood Blues Lime Light Blues Ode to the Midwest Ode to the South Uncles (Blood) Ode to Pork Ode to Chicken Ode to Wild Game Ode to Homemade Wine Ode to Grits Ode to Chitlins Ode to Greens Sunday Drive Say When Book Rate New England Ode Amen Ode to the Hotel Near the Children’s Hospital Farm Team I Shall Be Released I Walk the Line I Hope It Rains at My Funeral Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere On Being the Only Black Person at the Johnny Paycheck Concert Last Ditch Blues Serenade Ode to Catfish Prayer for Black-Eyed Peas Ode to Gumbo Ode to Sweet Potato Pie Ode to Hot Sauce Ode to Pepper Vinegar Ode to Boudin

Blue Laws [Dear Darkness Outtakes, 2007–2009]

White Way Blues Body Bag Blues Dead Daddy Blues Yellow Dog Blues

From Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels [2011]

Preface From Buzzard

Exodus Advent Questioning Friendship Washington Easter Maroon Broadway Soundings Revelations

From Correspondance

Westville Speech New Haven Testimony Farmington Con. Scripture Boston, Mass. Sermon Gentleman

From Witness: A Libretto

Choir (Evening) Homily Credo. Choir (Twilight) Worksong Choir (Dusk) Catechism Covenant Devotional Choir (Dark) Anointing Second Eclectic Reader Epiphany Ash Wednesday. Choir (Morning)

Rapture [Occasional Poems, 2009–2013]

Wedding Song Anthem Whole Hog Bluish Elegy for Heaney A Short Blessing for a Long Marriage There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Rapture

From Book of Hours [2014]

Bereavement Act Now & Save Effects Rue Mercy Grief Charity Wintering Pity Codicil Anniversary Expecting Starting to Show First Kick Delivery Crowning Colostrum Jaundice Greening Thirst Pietà Ruth Arbor Day Memorial Day Sorrow Pilgrimage Gravity The Mission From Book of Hours

The light here leaves you The burnt The sun’s small fury You could spend The few fields How to listen Does the wind wonder Bodies are built It’s death there

Liner Notes A Note About the Author

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