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Publication
New York : Knopf, 2008.
Description
A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.
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LibraryThing member plenilune
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.
LibraryThing member nicholasjjordan
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
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Awards
Southern Book Prize (Winner — Poetry — 2009)
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Signed by the author