Book of Hours: Poems - Paperback
by Kevin Young
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375711886ISBN-10:375711880UPC:9780375711886Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPEJZB55Y
Book of Hours: Poems
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement ("Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me"), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375711886ISBN-10:375711880UPC:9780375711886Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCPEJZB55Y
Kevin Young is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of eight other collections, most recently The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink. Young's book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, won the Graywolf...
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