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Book of hours : poems / Kevin Young.

by Young, Kevin, 1970-

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Alfred A. Knopf, c2014.

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry -- Black authors.

9780307272249 (hc.)

0307272249 (hc.)

9780375711886 (pbk.)

9780375711886 (pbk.)

xii, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of the poet's father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement, Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son. Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking "What good/are wishes if they aren't / used up?" while understanding "How to listen / to what's gone." Young's frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life's mysteries.--From publisher description.

Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied at Harvard University and, while a student there, became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers founded by Thomas Sayers Ellis and Sharan Strange. He earned an MFA from Brown University. Three of Kevin Young's works, called 'an American trilogy' are: To Repel Ghosts (2001), which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat; Jelly Roll (2003), a collection of blues poems; and Black Maria (2005), a film noir. Young is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.--From Poetry Foundation website.

American poetry.

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