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Kevin Young
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For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too. Kevin Young
Creativity Lie Black Too Lying About Identity Narrator Making Author Forging Often Even
Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain. Kevin Young
Face Pain Pleasure Revolutionary Act
When I'm in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop once 'Judge Judy' comes on at 4, when I quit and come down. Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit - if she can make the tough calls, then so can I. Kevin Young
Day Writing Judge Sometimes Try Tough Down Once Come She Make Calls Around Edit Leave Judy Mode Office Get Quit Stop While Then Full-On Her
It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits. Kevin Young
Black Out Bad Spirits Glass Southern Blue Belief Keeps
It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page book about a dead painter, but they didn't. Kevin Young
Book People Thought Publish Took Ghosts Would About Dead Repel Want Anyone While Painter
In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance. Kevin Young
You Key Long Resonance Give Poem Poems Shape Obsessions Name Making Trying Them Realize Your Sequence Connections
Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own. Kevin Young
You Own Find Also Go Been Proving Curious Where Information Then Showing
I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible? Kevin Young
Impossible Looking Looking Back Believe Think Back About Seemed Write Like Pieces Also Armstrong Did Want James Story Little Lance Armstrong Us Really Why Believers Million Things
Not many poets have editors. Kevin Young
Poets Editors Many
Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life. Kevin Young
Life Music Great Quality Jazz Say Tells About Great Music Something Inventive Improvisational Us
I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist. Kevin Young
Best People Remember Guitarist Argument Would Over Literally
Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama. Kevin Young
Election Black First President President Barack Obama Claiming Obama Could Clinton America Barack Barack Obama Us Bill Bill Clinton Even Prepare
The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world. Kevin Young
Music History People World Important Understanding Think Poem Idea Also Sort Question Us
In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that. Kevin Young
Sometimes Think Ways Carries Poem Weight Feel Like Obviously Forget Form Much Many
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