Shock by shock / Dean Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Dean, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Copper Canyon Press.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 81 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2015]

Summary:

Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into invigorating poetic territory that combines the joy of being alive with his signature mixture of surrealism, humor, and fast-cut imagery. A Pulitzer finalist known for his hard-won insights, NPR said it best when they observed that Young sees "even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be."-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Could Have Danced All Night 3

Unlikely Materials 4

Street of Blind Knife Throwers 5

Crash-Test Dummies of an Imperfect God 7

Romanticism 101 8

The Death of André Breton 9

Heavy Lifting 10

Not Trying to Win No Prize 11

Glorious Particles in the Atmosphere Aflame 12

The Usual 13

How I Got Through. My Last Day on the Transplant List 14

Eternally the Sky Calls to Us 15

The Late Work of Pinkham Ryder 16

Three-Hearted Poem 17

Success Story 18

Another Original Monkey 20

Caruso on Pluto 23

Bird-Shaped Cliff 25

Crow Hop 26

Raft Hidden in Weeds 27

Blue Mansion 28

Eternal Is Our Journey, Brief Our Stopover 30

Exit Strategies 31

A Banner Day in the Boonies 32

Rites of Spring 33

Sky Below 34

Flash Powder 35

A Student Comes to My Office 37

Light-Bringers 38

Why I Haven't "Outgrown Surrealism" No Matter What That Moron Reviewer Wrote 39

Another Lethal Party Favor 40

Speech Therapy 41

Surgery in Air 42

Underground River 43

Grasshopper in a Field Being Mowed 44

Oracle 45

Everyday Escapees 46

Singing Underwater 47

Bender 51

How to Draw a Circle 57

Tomaz, I'm Still among the Living 58

Missing Person 59

My Wolf Is Bigger Than Your Wolf 60

Edgework 61

Quiet Grass, Green Stone 62

Emerald Spider between Rose Thorns 63

How to Glow 64

Gizzard Song 66

Folklore 68

Rough Drafts 70

The Life of the Mind 71

Ghost Gust 72

If You Can't Levitate, You'd Better Know How to Disappear 73

Watcher of the Skies 74

This Is the Other Road 76

Believe in Magic? 77.

ISBN:

9781556594311

1556594313

OCLC:

903424666