{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eOct 13, 2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e0375711880\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375711886\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48798522278193,"sku":"9780375711886","price":22.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/8215\/8385\/files\/9780375711886.jpg?v=1712827201","url":"https:\/\/www.recomparo.com\/products\/9780375711886","provider":"ReComparo.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}