Al Young, Author . Creative Arts $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88739-373-0
Mellow echoes of Langston Hughes's "Dream Deferred" rumble in the title of Young's latest collection, but the 140-odd short poems here have at least as much to do with Charles Bukowski's pointed ramblings, as they are long on...
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Al Young, Author Delta $7.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-440-55003-7
Poet and jazz critic Young's fifth novel resembles a Victorian picaresque in its loquaciousness and sense of adventure. Mamie Franklin, once a singer and actress, and now a domestic for a Beverly Hills family, describes, in her own humble and honest
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Al Young, Author Ecco Press $24 (273p) ISBN 978-0-88001-388-8
Taking his title from a song by Joe Simon, novelist, poet and essayist Young (Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-1990) presents a collection of essays prompted by hearing pieces of music. Some of these ``musical memoirs'' celebrate various performers-amon
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Al Young, Author, O. O. Gabugah, Designed by Creative Arts Book Company $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-88739-068-5
The largess of this book (nearly 300 poems) matches the sensibility of the poetry that is devised with broad brushstrokes and unrestricted affection for the ordinary world. Young ( Seduction by Light ) is interested in everything from Li Po to...
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