He's initiating protests with water guns. He's composing dirges on plastic accordions and elegies on toy pianos. Young writes playfully and snappily like the best of the New York School of poets. Clever imp that he is, Young does clearly relish the absurd, the illogical, the profane and the ribald. Young has found a world vibrantly alive at every turn—and he has shown us a way to live in this world, in this moment, in poetry. I wanted to start by saying this is the best damn book I've ever read. It engages you on a number of levels, making for an invigorating intellectual workout.

Liking Young's poetry is not a matter of taste. If you don't like it, you don't havey any.

A subversive triumph of the imagination. Dean Young has published eight previous books, most recently elegy on toy piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Embryoyo.

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Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems. More Praise Confidently balances moments of absurdity against high drama and raw admissions of emotion. Stretches beyond grief to portray a wide range of mixed emotions. Series Pitt Poetry Series.

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Enjambment is copiously employed to heighten the stand-up line effect throughout the poems. Here hard truths are given glibly, yet offer majesty. One person found this helpful. Delightfully Playful and Dark! I couldn't put it down.


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