6/6/2023 0 Comments The grey album kevin youngYOUNG: I suppose I was always fascinated by history. HUMANITIES: When did you become interested in history? I wanted to capture this fullness of tradition, and that’s what drew me to writing. I was really interested in what makes Black culture unique and its own-its traditions, foodways, the humor and the pleasure and, you know, some of the blues notes, too. I really wanted to understand what I think I’ve been interested in for the rest of my writing career, which is “the Blackness of Blackness,” as I said in the subtitle to my nonfiction book The Grey Album. My parents grew up in the rural segregated South, and I was much more focused on the fact that they grew up in Black environments. My first book was about the South and the way of life there. And Louisiana is what I first started really writing about in depth. That’s where I went to high school, and I moved there when I was nine, but I moved six times before that.įor me, home was always more Louisiana, where both my parents are from. So “from” is always a harder question than it might seem. KEVIN YOUNG: Well, I moved around a lot as a kid. HUMANITIES: Where are you from, and how did poetry enter your life?
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