“I?m getting back to it,” Young says,“not with the sort of concentration and sort of flame that I look forward to in the future,but I am blackening some pages.”

　　And on those blackened pages you?ll find poems like “How Grasp Green”,which carry themes of springtime and rebirth.It?s one of the first poems Young has written since his transplant.It?s easy to spot clues to Young?s awful health situation in the lines of his poetry.

　　Fall Higher?s “Vintage” opens with “Because I will die soon,I fall asleep during the lecture on the ongoing emergency.” And the poem “The Rhythms Pronounce Themselves Then Vanish”—published in The New Yorker in February—opens with the CT scan that revealed Young?s heart condition.

　　Hearts tend to come up a lot in poetry,and that?s especially true if Young?s work,which has clearly been influenced by the troubles of his own heart.

　　“A lot of times,it?s not just a metaphor(暗喻),” Young says.“For me,it’s an actual concern because I’ve been living with this disease for over 10 years.My father died of heart problems when he was 49,so it’s been a sort of shadowy concern for my whole life.

　　But Young’s poems also deal with more abstract matters of the heart.He wrote Fall Higher?s“Late Valentine” for his wife.“We?ve been married since late November and most of it has been spent in the hospital,” Young says of his marriage to Laurie Saurborn Young,who says “‘Late Valentine’ is very sweet.”

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