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First Course in Turbulence / Dean Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Dean, 1955-
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages) : portrait.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1999]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 's 1999 Poetry Book of the YearWith 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- One
- If Thou Dislik'st What Thou First Light'st On
- The Infirmament
- The Unattainable
- Acceptance Speech
- Tiger
- Warbler
- He Said Turn Here
- Bird Sanctuary
- Sky Dive
- Familiar Territory
- The Invention of Heaven
- Tribe
- Two
- Only One of My Deaths
- And Because Her Face
- Colophon
- Maybe It Meant Something Else
- Lives of the Inventors
- Mortal Poem
- Arts of Camouflage
- Lives of the Painters
- Don't Wear That Shirt with Those Pants
- Unthreatening Gestures
- Chapped Lips
- Faculty Summary Report
- The Oversight Committee
- Bay Arena
- Myth Mix
- Three
- Guidance Counseling
- Safe Sex
- A Student in a Distant Land
- Another Hive
- Robert Desnos (1900-1945)
- Archeology
- Drinking from a Puddle
- Dog Toy
- Agony in the Garden
- The Velvet Underground
- The Woman Who Parks in Front of My House
- God Son
- Three Weeks Late
- Easily Bruised
- Lives of the Poets
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822979364
- 0822979365
- OCLC:
- 887803050
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