Black Maria
Kevin Young is the author of three 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 most recent book,Jelly Roll: A Blues, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. A recent Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Young is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University.Kevin Young’sJelly Rollis available in Knopf paperback.From the Hardcover edition.