Book of Hours: Poems

by Kevin Young

Book Overview

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. 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,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375711880
• ISBN13: 9780375711886
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"