To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
Kevin Young is the author of four previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America'sJohn Berryman: Selected Poems,Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthologyBlues Poems,andGiant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers.His bookJelly Rollwas finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize.  Young, who has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.