Skid

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.

Author: Dean Young
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 01/31/2002
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.27w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780822957805
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 986
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002 pg. 58

About the Author
Dean Young has published eight previous books, most recently elegy on toy piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Embryoyo. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.