The San Francisco Examiner called him “one of the most talented poets in the United States.”
His book “The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness” won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2012, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and winner of the PEN Open Award. “Book of Hours” is Young’s eighth book of poems, and he is the editor of eight others, including “Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels,” which won of a 2012 American Book Award, and “Jelly Roll: A Blues,” a finalist for the National Book Award. “That’s really what some of those poems capture: those daily stakes … They’re poems about dealing with the everyday things we don’t always talk about in terms of grief, but also trying to find meaning or metaphor in those experiences.”įinding meaning and metaphor in life experiences has been an on-going theme in the work of the prolific writer and Emory creative writing professor. “That was so important to me in that moment,” says Young. “I’ve learned death has few kindnesses left,” he writes. In “Charity,” a poem about that day he collected his dead father’s clean clothes, he writes of the business owners’ kind words about his father and their small but touching gestures of declining payment for their services.
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