![]() The monk’s tonsure is intentional, a shaved bald spot as part of the rituals of sanctification, but here, in his poem, “Tonsure”, Young sees this hereditary marker as a complex sign of the things a man inherits from his father, the difficult, the beautiful, and, most powerfully, the part that repeats itself when he becomes a father, too. Kevin Young ’s collections are always an occasion, as is his next book, Stones, ( 2021) in which this poem appears.Īmerican Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (publisher of Poetry magazine. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Brown (2018), Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, and Book of Hours (2014). He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University and, while a student there, became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers. ![]() Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. ![]() Among a world that mends only the large things, ![]()
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