{"product_id":"stones-isbn-9781524732561","title":"Stones","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003ebecomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them—of us—poetry can save.“Young transforms memories, grief into beauty . . . We are lucky he allows us to travel with him into his past and glance over his shoulder.” \u003cb\u003e—Jeremy Redmon, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Distilled meditations on the deep resonance of family and home . . . Evocations of church services, rain, sun, and the music of the dark entwine nature and human longing . . . For Young, words are stones; poems are cairns.” \u003cb\u003e—Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKEVIN YOUNG is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He previously served as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Young is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Blue Laws: Selected \u0026amp; Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, \u003c\/i\u003elong-listed for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eBook of Hours,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry 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 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eBunk,\u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, long-listed 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, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e Resume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere the train once rained\u003cbr\u003e          through town\u003cbr\u003elike a river, where the water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003erose in early summer\u003cbr\u003e          \u0026amp; froze come winter— \u003cbr\u003ewhere the moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof the outhouse shone\u003cbr\u003e          its crescent welcome,\u003cbr\u003e where the heavens opened\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; the sun wouldn’t quit— \u003cbr\u003e          past the gully or gulch\u003cbr\u003eor holler or ditch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was born.\u003cbr\u003e          Or, torn— \u003cbr\u003eDragged myself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eatop this mountain\u003cbr\u003e          fueled by flour, butter- \u003cbr\u003emilk, grease fires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere I’m from\u003cbr\u003e          women speak \u003cbr\u003ein burnt tongues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; someone’s daddy dug\u003cbr\u003e          a latrine so deep \u003cbr\u003eup from the dark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edank bottom springs a tree.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300025782501,"sku":"NP9781524732561","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781524732561.jpg?v=1742918368","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/stones-isbn-9781524732561","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}