![]() When he finally finds the right dry cleaner ( “the last place knows exactly what I mean”), Young writes of the kindness of the people there: the man who expressed his condolences, the woman who mentioned to him how funny his father had been, the business owner who declined payment for the clothes. Not sure which dry cleaner his father’s clothes were at, he drove from one dry cleaning business to the next, only to be told “ Nothing here” Young’s poem “Charity” is about the dreary day he went to pick up his father’s dry cleaning in the wake of his unexpected death. Ten years later, he published “Book of Hours.” The poems track Young’s journey from the moment he found out his father was gone to the strange experience of resuming normal life while carrying the loss with him, to welcoming a son into the world two years after the tragedy. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. ![]() Knopf, 2014), winner of the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Knopf, 2018) and Book of Hours (Alfred A. ![]() Young began writing the poems in the collection a few years after he lost his late father in a hunting accident in 2004. Kevin Youngs poetry collections include Brown (Alfred A. In an interview with Terry Gross for NPR, Young said, “It was a way of just writing about what had happened, and also the way that the cycle of life informed my life, from death to birth to…a kind of rebirth that I felt afterward.” The poems are reflections on these seminal events that so dramatically influenced the lens through which Young looks at the world. Poet Kevin Young’s collection “Book of Hours” features poems about the death of his late father interspersed with poems about the birth of his son. ![]()
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