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  • Published: 6 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307264428
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $49.99

Dear Darkness

Poems



Delivered in Young’s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings “bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit” (San Francisco Chronicle).

  • Published: 6 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307264428
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Kevin Young

KEVIN YOUNG is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose, including his most recent, Night Watch. He is the poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the Poetry Podcast, and the editor of eleven volumes, including A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker, 1925-2025 and the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. He currently serves as the Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.

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