OBERLIN, OH--Poet David Young will give a reading from his new book of poems At the White Window Tuesday, October 24 on the campus of Oberlin College. Young is the Longman Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin.

Although the new collection of poems is centered in Oberlin, where Young has lived for 40 years, it is infused with myth, history, natural history, and imaginative constructs of many kinds, confidently joining itself to the long tradition of poetry stretching back to bards and shamans.

At the White Window opens with an elegiac section, commemorating, among others, Young’s mother and his friend, the poet Miroslav Holub. It closes with a sequence of 10 sonnets, "Cloudstown Lightfall," that features Oberlin in the way a village might be presented in a series of panels for a Chinese painted screen.

At the White Window (Ohio State University Press, 2000), is Young’s ninth book of poetry. His 1999 book, Seasoning: A Poet’s Year, also from Ohio State University Press, combines poetry with personal recipes based on the bounty of the region with memoir and nature writing.

Young has published four books of criticism, numerous translations, essays and articles, and eight other collections of poetry, including Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan, published in 1994 by Ohio State University Press. He has taught at Oberlin College since 1961.

His first collection Sweating Out the Winter was selected by William Stafford, Isabella Gardner, and Stanley Kunitz for the United States Award of the 1968 International Poetry Forum.

Among Young's numerous other honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and a major artist fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council.