{"product_id":"stones-poems-9781524711153","title":"Stones: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called \"one of the poetry stars of his generation.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We sleep long, \/ if not sound,\" Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, \"Till the end \/ we sing \/ into the wind.\" In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, \"Kith,\" exploring that strange bedfellow of \"kin\"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. \"Like heat he seeks them, \/ my son, thirsting \/ to learn those \/ he don't know \/ are his dead.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. \u003ci\u003eStones\u003c\/i\u003e becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them--of us--poetry can save.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKevin Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eStones\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; \u003ci\u003eBlue Laws: Selected \u0026amp; Uncollected Poems 1995-2015\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eBook of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll: a blues\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eBunk\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, longlisted for the National Book Award, and named on many \"best of\" lists for 2017; and \u003ci\u003eThe Grey Album\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle \u0026amp; Song\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Historians, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629900632338,"sku":"9781524711153","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80382394-d096-4a10-8895-8c6eb7828b54.jpg?v=1732736591","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stones-poems-9781524711153","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}