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Skid (Pitt Poetry Series)by Dean Young
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become a crucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry. Who else can bridge the gap between the camps of the experimental and the humanist, jolting both awake in just the right way? Deeply, authentically committed to the surrealist tradition of poem-as-event, also fluent in the lingus Americano (French fries and beer), Young's poems improvise, remember, and discover with an abandon which is furious, mind-boggling, funny, and heartbreaking. So often this poet seems to be holding life in his hands like a gorgeous slithery fabric, exclaiming over its astonishing texture and color, as well as its exorbitant price." Tony Hoagland Table of ContentsSunflower 3
Bright Window 5 I Am But a Traveler in This Land 7 Torn Red Interior 10 My People 12 Howl Upone Eskaping... 14 Gaga Gala 16 Blue Garden 18 Side Effects 20 Dead Dean 22 Sources of the Delaware 24 Today's Visibility 27 We Through Mists Descry 29 Snowy Prairie Rabbit 31 Bright Head 33 This Living Hand 35 Chest Pains of the Romantic Poets 37 Whale Watch 38 Shamanism 101 42 Honeycomb 44 Lives of the Mind 46 Flight Pattern 48 Goodbye, Place I Lived Nearly 23 Years... 50 Hammer 52 Changing Your Bulb 54 Republican Victory 56 The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo ... 58 Roller Coaster 59 Saga of Stumps 60 All the King's Men 63 Lives of the Noncombatants 64 I See a Lily on Thy Brow 66 Lives of the Dead 68 Sleep Cycle 70 Troy, Indiana 71 And You Don't Even Have to Leave the Building 74 Action Figuring 76 My Fall Teaching Schedule 78 Even Funnler Looking Now 80 A Poem by Dean Young 83 I Can Hardly Be Considered a Reliable Witness 84 Not in Any Ha Ha Way 86 Cotton in a Pill Bottle 88 Bidos 89 Pulse 91 What a Good Horse I Have 93 Archon 95 Noncompliant 97 How I Get My Ideas 99 Acknowledgements 101 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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