I dont know his process, but the result feels effortless.

These elegant, measured poems offer insight into the troubled moment through an exhumation of the past, while giving the reader plenty of depth and beauty to carry into the future. Young is also the author of For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, Blues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 19952015 (2016) 11 and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), Jazz Poems (2006), and John Berryman's Selected Poems (2004). Pick up Brown, Kevin Youngs ninth collection of poems, and youd think writing poetry is easy.

Tell your neighbor next to you you love them till we exit into the brightness beyond the doors. 'Till the end/ we sing/ into the wind,' he writes in 'Dolor,' while other poems emphasize the redeeming roles of family and parenting. YOUNG: (Reading) The brown wood smooth, scrolled arms grown warm with wear and prayer. KEVIN YOUNG is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and poetry editor for. In 'Vault,' Young recalls his toddler son, who 'skips stone// to stone, hollering happily/ on the slabs with bodies/ unmarked beneath.' In the subsequent poem, 'Boneyard,' the image grows more historically complicated, 'Like heat he seeks them,/ my son, thirsting/ to learn those/ he don't know/ are his dead.' 'Grief's evergreen,' he announces in 'Spruce,' but there is ample hope across the collection, too, most of it derived from love. Brown: Poems Kevin Young (Author) About the Author.

In The Book of Hours, his 2011 collection, Kevin Young moved from elegiac responses to the sudden death of his father to reanimating poems on the birth of his son. The book's epigraph, 'the stones hope to remember,' signals Young's interest in history and memorializing, echoed in 'Ivy,' which ends on 'the quiet/ of this place, the graves/ awaiting names,' and in 'Sting,' 'the agony/ of growing, the great/ effort, trying// not to die.' Graves prove a powerful motif throughout. Brown: Poems by Kevin Young Knopf, 176pp., 19.29 Harvard Review. With superbly crafted poems that engage the past and the present, Young ( Brown: Poems) delivers another ambitious collection across seven lyrically powerful sections.

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