Kevin Young (poet) Quotes

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In the Africa
of your eyes—my
lost tribe—
I am safari
this stumbling
shooting off
foolishly. Apologies—
you are no country.

Kevin Young

I showed up for jury duty—
turns out the one on trial was me.
Paid me for my time & still
I couldn't make bail.

Kevin Young

In my movie there are no
horses, no heroes
only draftees fleeing
into the pines, some few
who survive, gravely
wounded, lying
burrowed beneath the dead—
silent until the enemy
bayonets what is believed
to be the last of the breathing.

Kevin Young

Kevin Young

Kevin Young

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Born: November 8, 1970 (age 54)

Bio: Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young has been a winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his collection Jelly Roll: A Blues.

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