Research Catalog

Title

Book of Hours / Kevin Young.

Author

Young, Kevin A.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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Details

Description

xii, 185 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of the poet's father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement, Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son. 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.--From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Bereavement > Poetry
• Birth > Poetry
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors > 21st century
• Black author

Genre/Form

American poetry – African American authors – 21st century.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Obsequies -- (DOMESDAY BOOK). Elegy, father's day -- Bereavement -- Act now & save -- Effects -- Rue -- Bereavement fare -- Mercy -- Near miss -- Grief -- Solace -- Rosetta -- Charity -- Exit music -- Flag day -- Asylum -- (THE BOOK OF FORGETTING). Hurry up & wait -- Wintering -- Snow in april -- Easter -- Dream the day after easter -- Spring training -- Pity -- Remains -- Codicil -- Memorial day -- Grief -- Father's day -- Elegy -- Harvest -- Anniversary -- (CONFIRMATION). Miscarriage -- Expecting -- Starting to show -- Ultrasound -- First kick -- Linea nigra -- Montagne noire -- Gravida -- Quickening -- Lightening -- Nesting -- Labor day -- Breaking water -- Nativity -- Crowning -- Colostrum -- Jaundice -- Rooting -- Beasting -- Teething -- Teething -- Teething -- Teething -- Greening -- Thirst -- Blessings -- (THE BOOK OF THE BODY). Pieta -- Truce -- Stigmata -- Limbo -- Ruth -- The book of the body -- Annunciation -- Annunciation -- Stillborn -- Arbor day -- City of god -- Memorial day -- Sight -- Miracle removal -- Sorrow -- Pilgrimage -- Lower haight -- Gravity -- The mission -- (BOOK OF HOURS). The light here leaves you -- The burnt, blurred world -- Black like an eye -- Leaving the valley -- The sun's small fury -- You could spend -- Damn the dark -- The few fields -- How to listen -- The dark must live -- Winter's thunder -- Does the wind wonder -- My brother -- Bodies are built -- It's death there.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1286

ISBN

• 9780307272249 (Hardcover)
• 0307272249 (Hardcover)
• 9780375711886 (Trade Paperback) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013019328

OCLC

844789963

Author

Young, Kevin A.

Title

Book of Hours / Kevin Young.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Edition

First Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1286