The book of hours kevin young5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Van Jordan wrote: “As if walking through a gallery of grief, reverie, and transcendence, Kevin Young’s Book of Hours exemplifies what poetry can do in the world when language works at its full power. His newest book of poetry is Brown(Knopf, April 2018).īook of Hours was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awardand won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets-a prize that recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. ![]() ![]() Young is also poetry editor at The New Yorker.Īlso an editor, essayist, and curator, Young’s ten books of poetry include: Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014) Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels(Knopf, 2011), winner of an American Book Award Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008) For the Confederate Dead (Knopf, 2007) Black Maria (Knopf, 2005) To Repel Ghosts (“Remix,” Knopf, 2005) Jelly Roll: a blues(Knopf, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Most Way Home(William Morrow, 1995), winner of the National Poetry Series and the Zacharis First Book Award. Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation. ![]()
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