Introduction copyright © 2022 by The Poetry Foundation.īernardino Zenale, Saint Anthony of Padua, c. Knopf, 2021.) Poem reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher. Poem copyright ©2020 by Kevin Young, “Tonsure”, from Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2020. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The monk’s tonsure is intentional, a shaved bald spot as part of the rituals of sanctification, but here, in his poem, “Tonsure”, Young sees this hereditary marker as a complex sign of the things a man inherits from his father, the difficult, the beautiful, and, most powerfully, the part that repeats itself when he becomes a father, too. Kevin Young ’s collections are always an occasion, as is his next book, Stones, ( 2021) in which this poem appears.Īmerican Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (publisher of Poetry magazine. Book of Hours by Kevin Young, 2015, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group edition, in English Book of Hours (2015 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Brown (2018), Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, and Book of Hours (2014). He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University and, while a student there, became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. The poetry editor of The New Yorker, Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song.
Young is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, including Brown Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, long-listed for the National Book Award Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Jelly Roll: a blues, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Bunk, a New York Times Notable Book, long-listed for the National Book Award and named on many “best of” lists for 2017 and The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He previously served as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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