DAVID YOUNG
Wednesday, July 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Nationally-acclaimed poet, translator, and editor David Young is out from his Oberlin, Ohio base to read from his work. His nine books of poetry include, most recently, Black Lab (Knopf). "In keeping with the whole heart of his work, David Young's Black Lab draws from a variety of sources—a fellowship of poets, an intimacy of landscape, a celebration of the elegy—yet comes, in each of the poems, to a single, and singular, place of rest, calm, and clarity ... This is a book to carry, to rejoice in on those dark days." - Stanley Plumly. David Young's translations include poets Eugenio Montale, Petrarch, with a volume of Du Fu forthcoming from Knopf this fall. He is also editor of the prestigious Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press. Our thanks to Open Books: A Poetry Emporium for its part in this evening happening.

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