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Dear Darkness: Poems Book

Dear Darkness: Poems
Dear Darkness: Poems, Las Vegas, Nashville, Despair, the Midwest, Bar-B-Q Heaven, and his family's Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in his sixth book of poetry. Begun as a reflection on family and memory, Dear Darkness became a book of el, Dear Darkness: Poems has a rating of 5 stars
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Dear Darkness: Poems, Las Vegas, Nashville, Despair, the Midwest, Bar-B-Q Heaven, and his family's Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in his sixth book of poetry. Begun as a reflection on family and memory, Dear Darkness became a book of el, Dear Darkness: Poems
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  • Dear Darkness: Poems
  • Written by author Kevin Young
  • Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, July 2010
  • Las Vegas, Nashville, Despair, the Midwest, "Bar-B-Q Heaven," and his family's Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in his sixth book of poetry. Begun as a reflection on family and memory, Dear Darkness became a book of el
  • 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 Ch
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