So, we'll come back to Tony Hoagland in a moment, but Dean Young is a poet of sustained vitality, ingenious high jinks. You know, more than 200 pages of such impressive verve and a real braiding of the sacred and the profane, which often has very comical results.
Bender (2012)
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."
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