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Dear Darkness: Poems

by Kevin Young · 2008

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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 Chronicle).

Themes
grief
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 216 pages
Form
poetry

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