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  1. Sep 27, 2005 · To Repel Ghosts: The Remix. Paperback – September 27, 2005. by Kevin Young (Author) 5.0 6 ratings. See all formats and editions. Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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  2. Jun 1, 2001 · 1980s Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat led a brief, admittedly glamorous and tragic life, finally joining "that stupid club" of cultural figures who self-destructed at an early age. To Repel Ghosts is Kevin Young's ambitious cycle of poems about, inspired by, and in homage to Basquiat.

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  3. Revamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat’s rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of ...

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  4. To Repel Ghosts: The Remix. Revamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazz-like verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat’s rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one ...

  5. To Repel Ghosts synchronizes the harmony and discord of Basquiat’s canvases, adapting them as a bass line to improvise and play upon. Young renders ambitious, celebratory poetry of the everyday and the exalted—a double-album in verse, a jazz symphony, a hip-hop opera—taking Basquiat’s funkified history and making it sing.

  6. Sep 27, 2005 · 3.94. 104 ratings9 reviews. Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the ...

  7. TO REPEL GHOSTS. In this thick volume of 117 lean-lined poems, Young reanimates Jean-Michel Basquiat, the much-documented painter, graffiti artist and art world martyr who overdosed in 1988...

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