Dean Young

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January 01, 1955 in Columbia, Pennsylvania, The United States

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Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Though often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, his work also resonates with the Surrealist poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and if neo-surrealism has a poetic corollary then it is him. His most recent books are Elegy on Toy Piano and Embryoyo, the first of which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 1,374 ratings · 131 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Elegy On Toy Piano 4.00 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Embryoyo: New Poems 4.01 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Skid 4.12 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	First Course In Turbulence 4.22 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction 4.23 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Primitive Mentor 4.15 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Fall Higher 4.16 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Strike Anywhere 4.18 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Beloved Infidel 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Design with X 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
― Dean Young, Skid

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“When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?”
― Dean Young

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“Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. ”
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It's time to vote for the first Graywolf Press Book Club selection of 2011! You have until Thursday, December 16th to vote on our January 2011 read, and the winner will be announced on December 17th. All new books in all genres from 2010 are included. Happy voting!

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

5 votes 29.4%

The Report by Jessica Francis Kane

3 votes 17.6%

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

3 votes 17.6%

Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy

2 votes 11.8%

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland

2 votes 11.8%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

1 vote 5.9%

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young

1 vote 5.9%

We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems by Nick Lantz

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I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

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The Stranger Manual: Poems by Catie Rosemurgy

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The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty

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Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan

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Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

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The Wilding by Benjamin Percy

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Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka

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Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Missing You, Metropolis: Poems by Gary Jackson

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