{"product_id":"book-of-hours-kevin-young-9780375711886","title":"Book of Hours: Poems","description":"A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. \"In the night I brush \/ my teeth with a razor,\" he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (\"Not the storm \/ but the calm \/ that slays me\"), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in \"Crowning,\" he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing \"her face \/ full of fire, then groaning your face \/ out like a flower, blood-bloom, \/ crocused into air.\" 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375711880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375711886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Kevin Young","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047452012799,"sku":"9780375711886","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a53be8cb-4984-450d-952f-9679b42647b4.jpg?v=1684990294","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-hours-kevin-young-9780375711886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}