Description
The ""blk alter"" of Avery R. Young's poetic vision makes its stunning debut in a multidisciplinary arsenal entitled, neckbone: visual verses. Young's years of supernatural fieldwork within the black experience and the gospel of his transitions between poetry, art and music, become the stitch, paint brush, metaphor, and narrative of arresting visual metaphors of childhood teachings and traumas, identity, and the personal reverence of pop culture's beauty and beast. A mastermind in a new language of poetry, that engages and challenges readers to see beyond the traditional spaces poems are shaped and exist, Young's neckbone extends tentacles in literature, art, and activism-redefining the collective and the sermon of the ""blk"" experience.
About the Author
Avery R. Young is best known as a poet, songwriter, performer, and multidisciplinary artist. He is also an award-winning teaching artist who mentors youth in creative writing and theater. He has been an Arts and Public Life Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago and has written curricula for Columbia College Chicago, Young Leeds Authors, True Star Magazine, and the Chicago Public Schools Art Integration Department. young's poems and essays on HIV awareness, misogyny, race records, and art integration have been published in The BreakBeat Poets, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, AIMPrint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning, and other anthologies.
His album booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid combines his poetry and sound design to discuss matters of race, gender, and sexuality in America during the Obama Era. Avery's work in performance, visual text, and sound design has been featured in several exhibitions and online publications-notably The Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and American Jazz Museum. He currently works as a teaching artist, mentoring Rebirth Youth Poetry Ensemble and performing with his band, de deacon board.
Reviews
I have never encountered a book filled with such defying, defiant soul. I cannot predict nor describe the potential audience for this book, but I assure you I am a member of that audience."" - Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin?
""As you read this book, recognize that you're not just reading one of our greatest living street poets or one of the most important thinkers on the Black experience; you're reading about yourself."" - Theaster Gates
Book Information
ISBN 9780810140523
Author Avery R. Young
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 760g
About the Author
Avery R. Young is best known as a poet, songwriter, performer, and multidisciplinary artist. He is also an award-winning teaching artist who mentors youth in creative writing and theater. He has been an Arts and Public Life Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago and has written curricula for Columbia College Chicago, Young Leeds Authors, True Star Magazine, and the Chicago Public Schools Art Integration Department. young's poems and essays on HIV awareness, misogyny, race records, and art integration have been published in The BreakBeat Poets, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, AIMPrint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning, and other anthologies.
His album booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid combines his poetry and sound design to discuss matters of race, gender, and sexuality in America during the Obama Era. Avery's work in performance, visual text, and sound design has been featured in several exhibitions and online publications-notably The Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and American Jazz Museum. He currently works as a teaching artist, mentoring Rebirth Youth Poetry Ensemble and performing with his band, de deacon board.
Reviews
I have never encountered a book filled with such defying, defiant soul. I cannot predict nor describe the potential audience for this book, but I assure you I am a member of that audience."" - Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin?
""As you read this book, recognize that you're not just reading one of our greatest living street poets or one of the most important thinkers on the Black experience; you're reading about yourself."" - Theaster Gates
Book Information
ISBN 9780810140523
Author Avery R. Young
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 760g
