By Dean Young
"Dean younger demanding situations the reader to hold on as he jigs from one poetic kind to a different and units a wondrous path throughout a Duchampian landscape."—Chicago Tribune
"In Young's paintings, the massive crucial questions—mortality, id, the that means of life—aren't easily nutrition for idea; they are grounds for entertainment."—The Sunday celebrity (Toronto)
Dean younger escorts his transplanted center into invigorating poetic territory that mixes the enjoyment of being alive together with his signature mix of surrealism, humor, and fast-cut imagery. A Pulitzer finalist identified for his hard-won insights, NPR stated it top once they saw that younger sees "even within the smallest issues the heights of what we will be."
From "Harvest":
Bring me the excessive center of a trapezist.
If now not, convey me the center of a under the influence of alcohol monk
so i could remove darkness from an historical text
in a language i cannot understand.
The mind too is blood, blood racing
100 miles an hour on education wheels
so permit me splash via a purple puddle,
let me kiss the face of a pink puddle,
let me write my crazed, severe demands
on the frost-cracked window of god's split
chest…
Dean younger is the writer of twelve books of poetry, together with finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He teaches on the collage of Texas and lives in Austin.
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