Kevin Young | Official website | Book of Hours
A beautiful book of both grief and birth from the award-winning poet whose work thrills his audience with its immediate emotional impact and musical riffs. A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of the poet's father, we witness the unfolding of his grief.
from Book of Hours | The Poetry Foundation
from Book of Hours. By Kevin Young. Share. The light here leaves you. lonely, fading. as does the dusk. that takes too long. to arrive. By morning. the mountain moving. a bit closer to the sun. This valley belongs.
Amazon.com: Book of Hours: Poems: 9780307272249: Young, Kevin: Books
Mar 4, 2014 · 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 sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man ...
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Book of Hours: Poems by Kevin Young - Goodreads
Mar 4, 2014 · Young delves into the sorrow and grief of losing a loved one, in this case his father, while simultaneously exploring the joy of new life in the birth of a child. It's a harrowing and touching collection that vacillates between these emotions, and many more, in exacted, yet accessible poems.
About Book of Hours - Penguin Random House
About Book of Hours. 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.
In Book of Hours, Kevin chronicles and links two profound life experiences: the death of his father and the birth of his son. Named one of the "ten essential poetry titles for 2014" by Library Journal, the book's themes are universally resonant, its poems at once intimate and relatable.
Book of Hours - National Endowment for the Arts
In Book of Hours, Kevin chronicles and links two profound life experiences: the death of his father and the birth of his son. Named one of the "ten essential poetry titles for 2014" by Library Journal, the book's themes are universally resonant, its poems at once intimate and relatable.
Book of Hours - Academy of American Poets
In Book of Hours, Kevin Young’s eighth poetry collection, he marks the tenth anniversary of his father’s sudden and unexpected death in poems that recount the process of bereavement and create a language of loss while also celebrating life through accounts of the birth of his son.
Poetry Review: “Book of Hours” — From Mourning to Celebration
Apr 18, 2014 · Kevin Young’s ninth book takes its title from a religious devotional that dates back to the Middle Ages. Often containing illuminated plates, a book of hours often consisted of a litany of saints, a calendar of holy dates, psalms, and prayers for the dead.
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