{"product_id":"book-of-hours-poems-paperback","title":"Book of Hours: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 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, describing \"her face \/ full of fire, then groaning your face \/ out like a flower, blood-bloom, \/ crocused into air.\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Young is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and\u003ci\u003e Jelly Roll\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the editor of eight other collections, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Hungry Ear: Poems of Food \u0026amp; Drink.\u003c\/i\u003e Young's book \u003ci\u003eThe Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and won a PEN Open Book Award. He is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English, curator of Literary Collections and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726292283699,"sku":"9780375711886","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZlNuREMzOW5MdGJhZFRjRng0ZGYvUT09.webp?v=1763733586","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/book-of-hours-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}