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Ode to Gumbo

Kevin Young performs "Ode to Gumbo"

“So why not / make a soup / of what’s left? Why / not boil & chop / something outside / the mind...” Kevin Young reads “Ode to Gumbo” from his poetry collection Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008) at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

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Ode to Gumbo
Kevin Young
Dear Darkness
Knopf
Bowery Poetry Club
2008

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