![]() Some of it is in the details-little totems I would take from his house, or trying to get his dry cleaning. But with this book I wanted to recount in everyday language those days and hours and months after my father died, to capture a daybook of grief. This isn’t my first elegy, though I wish it were. Unfortunately I’d written about it before. Which challenge of writing about death surprised you the most? How did you overcome that challenge? ![]() In some ways, the book itself serves as a record of your struggle with writing about death, one of the largest and most well traveled territories in poetry. ![]() You wrote Book of Hours over the course of 10 years. Before he reads at Hugo House on Friday, we called Young up to ask about his new collection, Book of Hours (Knopf 2014), which explores the aftermath of his father’s death, the birth of his son, and the way grief digs its rough paths through us. The book of poems that really put him on the map was Jelly Roll: A Blues, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. He’s written seven books of poetry and edited eight others, perhaps most notably Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, which won the 2012 American Book Award. Since his early days in The Dark Room Collective-a community of African American poets that included Thomas Sayers Ellis, Sharan Strange, Major Jackson, and current poet laureate Natasha Tretheway-Kevin Young’s accomplishments are almost too many to name. ![]()
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