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For the Confederate Dead
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780375711411
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $49.99
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For the Confederate Dead

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The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines” (Publishers Weekly).
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780375711411
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Kevin Young

KEVIN YOUNG is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose, including his most recent, Night Watch. He is the poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the Poetry Podcast, and the editor of eleven volumes, including A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker, 1925-2025 and the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. He currently serves as the Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.
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