To Repel Ghosts

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 037571023X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Repel Ghosts written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with fame and heroin, mourning his untimely death, and celebrating his legacy. Along the way Young riffs on Basquiat's paintings and sayings, on the music he loved, on the artists he ran with (Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, among them), and on the black heroes (Charlie Parker, Muhammad Ali, Billie Holiday) who inspired him. Young's poetic channeling of Basquiat--a jostling, poignant brand of downtownspeak--makes for an urban epic in the tradition of Langston Hughes's "A Dream Deferred." To Repel Ghosts, along with Young's Jelly Roll: A Blues and Black Maria, his recent book of film noir verse, forms an American trilogy--Devil's Music--that explores other art forms through poetry. In its creation, Yound has become a poet whose work speaks both for and beyond his genre, with a music all its own.

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417771646
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Repel Ghosts: The Remix written by and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Repel Ghosts written by Kevin Young and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '80s art-world phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and black American cultural icons. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the harmony and discord of Basquiat's canvases, adapting them as a bass line to improvise and play upon. Author of the award-winning Most Way Home, Kevin Young here renders ambitious, celebratory poetry of the everyday and the exalted -- a double-album in verse, a jazz symphony, a hip-hop opera -- taking Basquiat's funkified history and making it sing.

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Repel Ghosts written by Kevin Young and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a poet, Young is as dazzlingly agile and as hard-hitting as Jack Johnson in his prime.-Lorenzo Thomas. Kevin Young has written a big and audacious book. To Repel Ghosts is more than a double album of riffs, songs, laments, outbursts, raps, and tunes. It is more than a book of poems about the tragic life of Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is more than a history of black genius. To Repel Ghosts is a postmodern masterpiece that challenges those who believe we have reached the end of history.-John Yau.

Author : Crowell Ramsey
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1600343279
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break That Curse! Get Rid of the Evil Spirits, Demons, and Ghost. written by Crowell Ramsey and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandrea Mosses
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738740071
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanquishing Ghosts and Demons written by Sandrea Mosses and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, rage-filled entity throws a man across a room. An incubus heralds his attacks with the smell of burnt cookies. A demon disguises itself as a guardian angel and humiliates a woman to the point of madness. Vanquishing Ghosts and Demons explores more than thirty terrifying case studies of a spiritualist medium and her colleagues. The bizarre and horrifying true accounts in this book will have readers on the edge of their seats, aghast at what is "out there." Investigating reports of creatures from the astral plane who have entered our world through portals or by invitation, Sandrea Mosses has encountered treacherous spirits, other-dimensional beings, and full-blown demonic infestations. Having removed other-dimensional predators from people, places, and the land itself, Mosses is living proof that with the proper training and tools, dark entities can be beaten.

Author : Leonhard Emmerling
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783822816370
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Michel Basquiat written by Leonhard Emmerling and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting as an enigmatic street graffiti artist in New York in the late 1970s, Jean-Michel Basquiat went on to become the shooting star of the art world before succumbing to a drug overdose in 1988. This is his story.

Author : David Housewright
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250212189
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Grave written by David Housewright and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A past case comes back to haunt Twin Cities P.I. McKenzie as a stolen sum of money threatens to resurface in From the Grave, the next mystery in David Housewright’s award-winning series. Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first love Shelby Dunston attends a public reading by a psychic medium with the hope of connecting with her grandfather one final time. Instead, she hears McKenzie’s name spoken by the psychic in connection with a huge sum of stolen—and missing—money. Caught in a world of psychic mediums, with a man from his past with a stake in the future, and more than one party willing to go to great and deadly lengths to get involved, McKenzie must figure out just how much he’s willing to believe—like his life depends on it—before everything takes a much darker turn.

Author : Ronald Suleski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361030
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950 written by Ronald Suleski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.