Ardency
A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2012
Summary
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.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375711619 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375711619 |
| Author: | Kevin Young |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Kevin Young
KEVIN YOUNG is the author of six previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America’s John Berryman- Selected Poems, the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthologies Blue Poems and Jazz Poems, and Giant Steps- The New Generation of African American Writers. His book Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and For the Confederate Dead he won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.
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