{"product_id":"book-of-hours-poems-9780375711886","title":"Book Of Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003eA decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. \"In the night I brush \/ my teeth with a razor,\" he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (\"Not the storm \/ but the calm \/ that slays me\"), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in \"Crowning,\" he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing \"her face \/ full of fire, then groaning your face \/ out like a flower, blood-bloom, \/ crocused into air.\" Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking \"What good\/are wishes if they aren't \/ used up?\" while understanding \"How to listen \/ to what's gone.\" Young's frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life's mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41081227444430,"sku":"9780375711886","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/9780375711886_1.jpg?v=1649844011","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/book-of-hours-poems-9780375711886","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}