5/27/2023 0 Comments Brown by Kevin Young![]() ![]() ![]() The speaker says some people were not ready to leave until “good / Jim swung from a tree,” but the brutality of that single act is not enough. ![]() A set of images put the whole book within a particular context. The book’s frontpiece, “Thataway,” responds to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and is in the voice of a migrant, not from Syria or Central America, but from America’s south. Each poem is tight to its subject, spare and musical in its language, and specific but resonates with significance in social, political, or historical realms. I don’t know his process, but the result feels effortless. Pick up Brown, Kevin Young’s ninth collection of poems, and you’d think writing poetry is easy. ![]()
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