"Young's Bender is a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be.
About the Author: Dean Young: Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award.
300 Pages
Poetry, American
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About the Book
"Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way." --Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis
"Young's Bender is a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be. That's as good a definition of contemporary poetry as any."--NPR
"This book reads like a long, breathless thank you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy."--Los Angeles Times
"The reader's mind shoots through [Young's poems] like the steel ball in a pinball machine, dinging around, racking up points. Dean's poems are amazingly fun."--BOMB
Bender gathers the abundant treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Young's poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, mercurial hip-shake shifts, and exposed nerves of heartache.
From "Commencement Address"
I love you for shattering. Someone has to. Just as someone has to announce inadvertently the end of grief or spring's splurge even as the bureaucrat's spittoon overflows. Someone has to come out the other end of the labyrinth saying, What's the big deal? Someone has to spend all day staring at the data from outer space or separating the receipts or changing the sheets in sour room after room. I like it when the end of the toilet paper is folded into a point. I like napkins folded into swans because I like wiping my mouth on swans...
Dean Young has published twelve books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin.
About the Author
Dean Young: Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 300
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Dean Young
Language: English
Street Date: June 23, 2015
TCIN: 85277048
UPC: 9781556594007
Item Number (DPCI): 247-69-0806
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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