Description
In this luminous collection, Kevin Young turns to loss, memory, and the stubborn, tender forces that keep us bound to life. Across scenes rooted in the American South—family kitchens, summer nights, ancestral landscapes—poems move through generations as the speaker and those he loves search for meaning in what remains. With images that linger like heat, light, and sound, Young explores kinship, inheritance, and the strange intimacy between the living and the dead, asking what we protect, what we carry, and what we can still sing. Known for his musical intelligence and vivid, scene-driven lyricism, Young crafts an ode to home places and the departed, where poetry becomes both witness and rescue.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Sep 28, 2021
129 pages
ISBN: 9781524732578
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Stones: Poems by Kevin Young.