{"product_id":"book-of-hours","title":"Book of Hours - Poems","description":"A 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50955360665888,"sku":"9780375711886","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780375711886.jpg?v=1763708326","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/book-of-hours","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}