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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
by
Kevin Young
Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion.
Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, wh...more
Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, wh...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
September 18th 2012
by Knopf
(first published January 18th 2011)
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Well, I've read two books of poetry by Kevin Young. So I guess that comparison was really what sealed the deal for me. He has a couple other works that I now must go read, but I've read this one and 'Black Maria'. The later is a collection of exclusively noir poetry that I enjoyed thoroughly. 'Ardency' however, has nothing to do with noir poetry at all. I'm sensing a pattern here. Whatever Kevin Young writes will be brilliant.
Born and raised Southern, I had access to an education where the cur...more
Born and raised Southern, I had access to an education where the cur...more
I look forward to reading this again. It's right up my poetic alley, and it's just plain good. There are many different structuring methods at work, in four different sections, and I don't know if I took enough time to get how they all worked. I think I'll buy this so I can go back and spend more time with it.
There was one weird thing I'd like to mention: the first section is written in the voice of James Covey, the interpreter for the re-captured slaves of the Amistad. His poems contain several...more
There was one weird thing I'd like to mention: the first section is written in the voice of James Covey, the interpreter for the re-captured slaves of the Amistad. His poems contain several...more
Award winning poet, Kevin Young, writes about the Amistad rebels here. Most readers probably know the basic story of the slave ship prisoners who took over their vessel. In the poems, the people involved are portrayed and the reader can visualize the rebels, their stay in CT, and their return to Africa. A fascinating work by the author of JELLY ROLL.
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This book is entertaining as well as thought provoking and somewhat beautiful. It is rare to find any of those qualities in contemporary poetry. So I actually don't regret reading it.
I love this book. Young is so knowledgeable about 19th-century print culture. The volume plays with font, with texuality, with literacy. The poetry is alive but also recovering knowledge--attempting to understand a mode of being and a process of resistance. Read this book of poetry! Also it is a book--its form as a text is part of the project, so don't read it in any other manner, than holding the book in your hands.
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Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992-1994), and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.
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