Title: Dear darkness : poems /
Authors: Young, Kevin A.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Knopf,
Year: 2008
Subjects: American poetry.
Abstract: A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.
Contents: Sweet blood. Cotillion : Sweet blood -- Cousins -- Nineteen seventy-five -- Prescription -- Tuff buddies -- Bloodlines -- The halt cart -- Primary -- No offense -- Field trip -- Flood -- Cortége: Aunties -- Pallbearing (Labyrinth, Pallbearing, Victuals, Hurricane, Eulogy) -- See that my grave is kept clean -- Insurance -- Inheritance -- Uncles (Blood) -- Casting -- Close call : Ode to my scars -- Ode to my feet -- Black cat blues -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Ode to my sex -- Short end blues -- Bachelorhood -- Lost dog blues -- Hang dog blues -- To my near-mistress -- Something borrowed blues -- Slow drag blues -- Farewell tour : On my mind -- Flash flood blues -- Lime light blues -- Bling bling blues -- Set list -- Why I want my favorite band to break up -- On being blind -- Dirty deal blues -- Ode to my father's feet -- Up South blues -- Ode to the Midwest -- Ode to the South -- Uncles (Play). Young & Son's Pawn & Gun. Ode to pork -- Ode to chicken -- Ode to crawfish --^