Earthshine

A poetic journey through sorrowful loss and rediscovery of life.

"David Young's art is exact and exacting-you can't help being moved by this straightforward account of his wife's death. Nor can you help joining in the redemptive, clear-eyed commitment to look again at all of the things in the world backlit by grief. These poems do what poems should-they save a little of the world, they surprise us with our own constancy and strength."

DAVID YOUNG is the author of five other books of poetry: Sweating Out the Winter, Boxcars, Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems, The Names of a Hare in English, and Foraging (Wesleyan, 1986). He is also a translator of five books including Sonnets to Orpheus (Wesleyan, 1987). A professor of English at Oberlin College, Young received a B.A. from Carlton College (1958) and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1965. He edits Field, a literary magazine, and serves as an arbiter of Field's translation series. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.