With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young's latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes the joke. With surrealist volatility, these poems are the result of experiments that continue for the reader during each reading. Young moves from reworkings of creation myths, the index of the Norton Anthology of Poetry, pseudo reports and memos, collaged biographies, talking clouds, and worms, to memory, mourning, sexual playfulness, and deep sadness in the course of this turbulent book.
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"Dean Young's fourth book is caffeinated, frantic. The speaker of these poems is highly attuned to the world, but utterly befuddled by it . . . Theories, conversations, books, friends, mishaps, and other minutiae blend into each other. . . " -- Boston Book Review
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Dean Young was born in 1955 in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He has received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown , a Stegner fellowship from Stanford, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published three previous books of poems, Design with X, Beloved Infidel, and Strike Anywhere, which won the Colorado Poetry Prize in 1995. Currently an associate professor at Loyola University, he splits his time between Chicago and Berkeley, California, where he lives with his wife, fiction writer Cornelia Nixon.
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The sexiest dork around,
This review is from: First Course In Turbulence (Pitt Poetry Series) (Paperback)
Dean Young is becoming one of the most dazzling poets writing. First Course in Turbulence is not only Young's best book, but one of the best poetry books of the year. He has the ability to convey simple human truths in delightful--humorous, wacky, bizarre--ways. He works by association, and he works quickly, providing his readers with a wild and utterly thrilling ride.
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The Duchamp of Poetry,
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For a few books now Young has been steadily traveling the highway of surrealism. "In First Course in Turbulence" though, Young's wheels hop from the highway and into the stars. This book is wild and associative, beautifully illogical. What Young creates for me is way beyond surreal-- its Duchampish, Dadaistic as he teases and resists, reshapes the senses.
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A great discovery,
This review is from: First Course In Turbulence (Pitt Poetry Series) (Paperback)
Reading Dean Young for the first time, I felt the way I felt upon discovering William Matthews or James Tate. Young is a major new poet, one who uses language and stream-of-consciousness in consistently interesting ways.
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