Name: Black Lab

Author: David Young
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9780307263223
9780375711299
0307263223
0375711295
David Young, the distinguished poet and translator, offers us a gorgeous cycle of poems attuned to the Midwestern seasons'€”to weather both emotional and actual. A writer of thrilling invention and humanity, Young beckons the reader into an effortless proximity with the fox at the field'€™s edge, with the chattering crow and the startling first daffodils of spring. In his tour of both exterior and interior landscapes, the poet scatters his father'€™s ashes and remembers losing his wife, Chloe, to cancer, a loss at times still fresh after several decades; pays homage to the wisdom of the Chinese masters whose aesthetic has helped shape his own; and reflects on the gladdening qualities of a walk in a snowstorm with his black labrador, Nemo: and in this snowfall that I should detest, late March and early April, I'€™m still rapt to see his coat so constellated, starred, re-starred, making a comic cosmos I can love. Young'€™s expert shaping of this world in which, as he writes, '€œWe'€™re never going to get God right. But we / learn to love all our failures on the way,'€ becomes for the reader a fresh experience of life'€™s mysterious goodness and of the abundant pleasure of the language that embodies it. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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