A Conversation with Kevin Young
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
Length: 23:45
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
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Transcript of conversation with Keven Young
Keven Young:
Once I thought everything?has a soul
Then I learnt only?the fool fears the tree--
It is empty--
So too the wind?that sends it which
way & that--
Now I know God?is such a wind
from which we?are rent--
The heavens take?the tree
from the tree--?leaf by leaf--
Being gone, taken,?is what means Heaven--
It is full--of wings--
A music of what?is missing
since nothing?but men have souls
tho, it appears,?not many.
That was poet Keven Young reading "Ash Wednesday" a poem from his new book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. I'm your host, Josephine Reed.
Born in 1970, Keven Young has been called the poet of his generation. He's written six full-length books of poetry, most with a unifying theme. He use...
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Interview conducted and edited by Jo Reed
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