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Jake Young pays attention to the smallest details in the world which he sets in the right order to produce poems that make meaning, reveal the earth, and ourselves, and brilliantly cherish us both.
–Christopher Buckley
Young’s spare and attentive lines take for their model the great nature poets of history: Wordsworth and Snyder, Bashō, Thoreau. I admire their clear language and patient sensuality.
–Joseph Millar
In What They Will Say, Jake Young takes his readers on a journey back and forth between far flung countries, between the memories of childhood and the realities of adulthood. In less deft hands this displacement might be jarring, but Young seamlessly closes the distance between distant times and places, grounding his poems in a sense of home that only family can create. In concise, thoughtful prose poems, Young contemplates his world with a quiet voice that reflects the sacredness of the people, foods, and places that are his subjects.
–Rebecca Pelky
What They Will Say
by Jake Young
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-429-4
2021
Jake Young is the author of the poetry collection American Oak (Main Street Rag, 2018), and the essay collection True Terroir (Brandenburg Press, 2019). He received his MFA from North Carolina State University and his PhD from the University of Missouri. Jake also serves as the poetry editor for the Chicago Quarterly Review.
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