University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002 Paper: 978-0-8229-5780-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7935-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3575.O782S55 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the imagination, these poems proclaim vitality and alertness, wasting nothing. From Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner’s "Meep! Meep!" to remembrances of lost loves and laments about the future, Young’s poems reveal his faith in the genius of calamity and the redemptive power of fun.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dean Young has published eight previous books, most recently elegy on toy piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Embryoyo. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
REVIEWS
“Young’s poems ignore and gently deride the familiar, anticipated forms of serious poetry--and in doing so they seem to present themselves as less equipped than, say, sonnets, to do their job --and then simultaneously deliver a message of thunderous emotional resonance. . . .Young’s poems are reason-defying but compassionate; the poems don’t alienate the reader but accommodate him.. . .For all his comedic effects, there’s some serious work being done here. Young’s work withstands and encourages such serious treatment.” --Boston Review
“Dean Young’s poetry at once invites, repels, and surprises. . . . The scattered rush and push of ideas, the energetic narration, and the complex array of visceral images are complemented by moments of stark clarity. Incongruously realistic and surreal, frightening and funny, simple and complx, ‘Skid’ shocks us with portraits of our everyday lives.” --Prairie Schooner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Sunflower
Bright Window
I Am But a Traveler in This Land and Know Little of Its Ways
Torn Red Interior
My People
Howl Upone Eskaping, I Learne Mey Vehikle Is Not Sea-Worthie and Upone Mey Tragik Recapture and Longe Internmynt During Whyche I Wrighte These Words Thorough a Secret System Infolfing Mey Owne Blood
Gaga Gala
Blue Garden
Side Effects
Dead Dean
Sources of the Delaware
Today’s Visibility
We Through Mists Descry
Snowy Prairie Rabbit
Bright Head
This Living Hand
Chest Pains of the Romantic Poets
Whale Watch
Shamanism 101
Honeycomb
Lives of the Mind
Flight Pattern
Goodbye, Place I Lived Nearly 23 Years Almost Everyone Left Before Me
Hammer
Changing Your Bulb
Republican Victory
The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo, Writes His Wife a Letter during Her Semester Abroad
Roller Coaster
Saga of Stumps
All the King’s Men
Lives of the Noncombatants
I See a Lily on Thy Brow
Lives of the Dead
Sleep Cycle
Troy, Indiana
And You Don’t Even Have to Leave the Building
Action Figuring
My Fall Teaching Schedule
Even Funnier Looking Now
A Poem by Dean Young
I Can Hardly Be Considered a Reliable Witness
Not in Any Ha Ha Way
Cotton in a Pill Bottle
Eidos
Pulse
What a Good Horse I Have
Archon
Noncompliant
How I Get My Ideas
Acknowledgements
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002 Paper: 978-0-8229-5780-5 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7935-7
Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the imagination, these poems proclaim vitality and alertness, wasting nothing. From Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner’s "Meep! Meep!" to remembrances of lost loves and laments about the future, Young’s poems reveal his faith in the genius of calamity and the redemptive power of fun.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dean Young has published eight previous books, most recently elegy on toy piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Embryoyo. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
REVIEWS
“Young’s poems ignore and gently deride the familiar, anticipated forms of serious poetry--and in doing so they seem to present themselves as less equipped than, say, sonnets, to do their job --and then simultaneously deliver a message of thunderous emotional resonance. . . .Young’s poems are reason-defying but compassionate; the poems don’t alienate the reader but accommodate him.. . .For all his comedic effects, there’s some serious work being done here. Young’s work withstands and encourages such serious treatment.” --Boston Review
“Dean Young’s poetry at once invites, repels, and surprises. . . . The scattered rush and push of ideas, the energetic narration, and the complex array of visceral images are complemented by moments of stark clarity. Incongruously realistic and surreal, frightening and funny, simple and complx, ‘Skid’ shocks us with portraits of our everyday lives.” --Prairie Schooner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Sunflower
Bright Window
I Am But a Traveler in This Land and Know Little of Its Ways
Torn Red Interior
My People
Howl Upone Eskaping, I Learne Mey Vehikle Is Not Sea-Worthie and Upone Mey Tragik Recapture and Longe Internmynt During Whyche I Wrighte These Words Thorough a Secret System Infolfing Mey Owne Blood
Gaga Gala
Blue Garden
Side Effects
Dead Dean
Sources of the Delaware
Today’s Visibility
We Through Mists Descry
Snowy Prairie Rabbit
Bright Head
This Living Hand
Chest Pains of the Romantic Poets
Whale Watch
Shamanism 101
Honeycomb
Lives of the Mind
Flight Pattern
Goodbye, Place I Lived Nearly 23 Years Almost Everyone Left Before Me
Hammer
Changing Your Bulb
Republican Victory
The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo, Writes His Wife a Letter during Her Semester Abroad
Roller Coaster
Saga of Stumps
All the King’s Men
Lives of the Noncombatants
I See a Lily on Thy Brow
Lives of the Dead
Sleep Cycle
Troy, Indiana
And You Don’t Even Have to Leave the Building
Action Figuring
My Fall Teaching Schedule
Even Funnier Looking Now
A Poem by Dean Young
I Can Hardly Be Considered a Reliable Witness
Not in Any Ha Ha Way
Cotton in a Pill Bottle
Eidos
Pulse
What a Good Horse I Have
Archon
Noncompliant
How I Get My Ideas
Acknowledgements
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
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