Stones by Kevin Young Ana Blandiana memory and contemporary life are

memory and contemporary life are interwoven make her work both pleasurable and deeply necessary

translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

and beautifully shaped

As for love—well

Stones by Kevin Young Ana Blandiana memory and contemporary life areA book of loss, looking back at what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent: "one of the poetry stars of his generation" Los Angeles Times 'We sleep long, if not sound,' Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, 'Till the end we sing into the wind.' In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South one poem, 'Kith', exploring that strange bedfellow of 'kin' the speaker and his young son