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  1. To Repel Ghosts
    To Repel Ghosts
  2. Studying Modern Drama (Palgrave Study Guides)
    Studying Modern Drama (Palgrave Study Guides)
  3. Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
    Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
  4. Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
    Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
  5. My Life with Noel Coward
    My Life with Noel Coward
  6. Understanding W.G.Sebald (Understanding Modern European & Latin American Literature S.)
    Understanding W.G.Sebald (Understanding Modern European & Latin American Literature S.)
  7. Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings and Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel the the Ya-ya Sisterhood
    Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings and Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel the the Ya-ya Sisterhood
  8. Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
    Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  9. The Nomad:The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    The Nomad:The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
  10. Studying Chaucer: Approaching the "Canterbury Tales" (Studymates S.)
    Studying Chaucer: Approaching the "Canterbury Tales" (Studymates S.)
  11. Tolkien's World: Mythological Sources of the "Lord of the Rings"
    Tolkien's World: Mythological Sources of the "Lord of the Rings"
  12. Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Scarlet Letter" (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Scarlet Letter" (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
  13. The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
    The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
  14. How to Read and Why
    How to Read and Why
  15. The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
    The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
  16. Strenuous Epigrams
    Strenuous Epigrams
  17. Katya and the Crocodile: A Film Story
    Katya and the Crocodile: A Film Story
  18. To Avert War, Our Prime Task: Selected Passages 1956 - 63
    To Avert War, Our Prime Task: Selected Passages 1956 - 63
  19. Basque Legends
    Basque Legends
  20. A Companion to Renaissance Drama
    A Companion to Renaissance Drama
  21. The Rose Garden of Persia
    The Rose Garden of Persia
  22. Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature & Culture S.)
    Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature & Culture S.)
  23. History of Old English Literature (Blackwell History of Literature S.)
    History of Old English Literature (Blackwell History of Literature S.)
  24. Essays, Second Series
    Essays, Second Series
  25. Essays on Russian Novelists
    Essays on Russian Novelists
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
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    		To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
    Kevin Young
    Manufacturer: Knopf
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 037571023X
    Release Date: 2005-09-27

    Book Description

    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.
    To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor
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      		To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor
      Kevin Young
      Manufacturer: Zoland Books
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      5. To Repel Ghosts: The Remix

      ASIN: 158195204X
      Release Date: 2002-12-10

      Book Description

      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. Young 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.

      Structured on two “discs,” To Repel Ghosts shows five “sides” of the artist, exploring the rise and demise of a painter who helped break through the art world’s color line, first as SAMO© and then as a downtown art-scene wunderkind.

      Here are riffs on — and extended rhapsodies for — a pantheon of black genius: ballplayers, comic book and folk heroes, boxers, and especially musicians: Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Robert Johnson, and Grace Jones. This kaleidoscope of lives emerges in To Repel Ghosts to provide a unique foil to Basquiat’s own bout with fame.

      As an urban epic in the tradition of Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred and Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York, To Repel Ghosts poignantly charts Basquiat’s era, its popular, social, and racial energies and excesses. An album of our times, it is a powerful statement on a now-gone genius, and our recently completed century.
      To Repel Ghosts.: An article from: Poetry
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        		To Repel Ghosts.: An article from: Poetry
        John (English pop musician) Taylor
        Manufacturer: Modern Poetry Association
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Digital

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        ASIN: B0008FAWAK
        Release Date: 2005-07-30

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        This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 746 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

        Citation Details
        Title: To Repel Ghosts.
        Author: John (English pop musician) Taylor
        Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
        Date: May 1, 2002
        Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
        Volume: 180 Issue: 2 Page: 96(3)

        Article Type: Book Review

        Distributed by Thomson Gale

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        1. Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)
        2. To Repel Ghosts
        3. Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama
        4. A Defence of Poesie and Poems
        5. Persian Letters
        6. Mastery of Silence: A Collection of Poems
        7. The Fool on the Merry-Go-round
        8. D.H. Lawrence, Travel and Cultural Difference
        9. Hanif Kureishi (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
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