![]() ![]() Seaman, Donna Copyright 2014 Booklist From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. From intimate reflections on the mysteries of the body, Young turns his penetrating attention to sky and land as though on a vision quest, tracking the sun and moon, desert and valley, wildflowers and geese in cosmic poems of life's essentials and the great wheel of existence. As he takes measure of paternal absence, he prepares to become a father, writing with awe of the astonishments of pregnancy and the revelations of ultrasound. Young is a virtuoso of succinctness, which in this book has particularly deep resonance: The grammar of grief / gets written each day / & lost-and learnt again / by stone, by small / sliver, hieroglyph. ![]() He marvels over the strange munificence of organ donation, and when he acknowledges the poignant kinship he feels with his father's dogs, he quips, Brothers in paw. ![]() His tone is elegiac as he describes picking up his father's effects at the hospital. In his eighth collection, Young marks the tenth anniversary of his father's unexpected death, telling the story of the stunned aftermath with striking attunement to the utter transformation of what had been ordinary life. ![]() *Starred Review* Young is adept at netting the sensations of the moment and retrieving the spirit of the past in poems of monumental grief, stoicism, rapture, and sharp humor. ![]()
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