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Kevin Young
28-year-old badass poet who's gotten more recognition since he graduated from Harvard University than most milquetoast rhymesters will see in a lifetime.
The New Yorker
The Paris Review
Ploughshares
Dear Darkness (Knopf, 196 pages, $26.95)
“But the Blues come back for you, I've discovered.”
Dear Darkness
For the Confederate Dead
Not bad.
Dear Darkness
WWeek 2015