Dear Darkness
by Kevin Young
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A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.Tags
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I would guess that in the course of my first reading I read every poem two or three times, trying not to miss a drop of all the goodness. I loved all the odes to food, the many blues, and the deep God-talk going on here too. And as this was from the library, I immediately bought it and his earlier collection, *Jelly Roll.*
Exploring grief through blues and humor, Young has created a poetic manifesto for anyone who has experienced loss-- and who among us hasn't? He has a gift for the rhythms of language, and his poetry exemplifies the power of succinctness.
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Kevin Young is the author of a previous book of nonfiction, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, which won the PEN Open Book Award, was recognized as a New York Times Notable Book, and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Brown and Blue Laws: show more Selected Uncollected Poems 1995-2015. Young is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for the New Yorker. show less
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- Canonical title
- Dear Darkness
- Original publication date
- 2008
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- Languages
- English
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