In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a
language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as
the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as
"Stride Piano," "Gutbucket," and "Can-Can," these poems have the
sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues
trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion ("To watch you
walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see /
civilization start"), only to end up lamenting the loss of love
("No use driving / like rain, past / where you at"). As Young
conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to
embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the
bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all.
Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with
traditional lyric diction, Young's voice is pure American: joyous
in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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