Elegy On Toy Piano
Elegy On Toy Piano

Author: Dean Young

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2005-03-13

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0822991047

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In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated "Whirlpool Suite": "Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline." In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.

Bender
Bender

Author: Dean Young

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1619320355

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"In Young's work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."—Toronto Star "Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."—Booklist Bender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Dean Young's poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, and the exposed nerves of heartache. As the American Academy of Arts and Letters raved, "Young's poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymus Bosch. He is one of the most inventive and satisfying poets writing today." From "Even Funnnier Looking Now": If someone had asked me then, Do you suffer from the umbrage of dawn's dark race horses, is your heart a prisoner of raindrops? Hell yes! I would have said or No way! Never would I have said, What could you possibly be talking about? I had just gotten to the twentieth century like a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower. My Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch. I knew I was made of glass but I didn't yet know what glass was made of: hot sand inside me like pee going all the wrong directions, probably into my heart which I knew was made of gold foil glued to dust . . .

Shock by Shock
Shock by Shock

Author: Dean Young

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1619321475

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"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape."—Chicago Tribune "In Young's work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."—The Sunday Star (Toronto) Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into invigorating poetic territory that combines the joy of being alive with his signature mixture of surrealism, humor, and fast-cut imagery. A Pulitzer finalist known for his hard-won insights, NPR said it best when they observed that Young sees "even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be." From "Harvest": Bring me the high heart of a trapezist. If not, bring me the heart of a drunk monk so I may illuminate an ancient text in a language I can't understand. The brain too is blood, blood racing 100 miles an hour on training wheels so let me splash through a red puddle, let me kiss the face of a red puddle, let me write my crazed, extreme demands on the frost-cracked window of god's split chest… Dean Young is the author of twelve books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin.

Fall Higher
Fall Higher

Author: Dean Young

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1556593112

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Dean Young's poems are as entertaining and imaginative as a three-ring circus painted by Hieronymous Bosch

Primitive Mentor
Primitive Mentor

Author: Dean Young

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 0822978210

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The ninth collection for this Pulitzer Prize finalist, who remains as entertaining, imaginative and inventive as ever.

Solar Perplexus
Solar Perplexus

Author: Dean Young

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781556595721

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Dean Young uses the surreal to thread between what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward.

Poet's Work, Poet's Play
Poet's Work, Poet's Play

Author: Daniel Tobin

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0472069977

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An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry

180 More
180 More

Author: Billy Collins

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2005-03-29

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0812972961

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Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places. With poems by Robert Bly Carol Ann Duffy Eamon Grennan Mark Halliday Jane Kenyon David Kirby Thomas Lux Donna Masini W. S. Merwin Paul Muldoon Carol Muske-Dukes Vijay Seshadri Naomi Shihab Nye Gerald Stern Ron Padgett Linda Pastan Victoria Redel Franz Wright Robert Wrigley and many more

Under the Rock Umbrella
Under the Rock Umbrella

Author: William J. Walsh

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9780881460476

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American poet born between 1951 and 1977 who was not influenced by popular music and the paradigm shift that occurred in the country ... Under the Rock Umbrella brings together the best poets influenced by this powerful era in music to allow us to examine the music of each poet's own verse. --Mercer University Press.

Our Savage Art
Our Savage Art

Author: William Logan

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0231147333

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'Our Savage Art' features the corrosive wit and substantial critiques that are the trademarks of William Logan's style. Opening with a defence of the critical eye, this collection features essays on Robert Lowell's correspondence, Elizabeth Bishop's unfinished poems, and the inflated reputation of Hart Crane.