Fall Higher by Dean Young

Fall Higher by Dean Young

Dean Young is a high-energy poet. . . . His vigorous, vibrant, fast-paced poems make startling connections.--Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist

Anyone with a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become a crucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry.--Tony Hoagland

The language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems are astounding.--Charles Simic

Dean Young surmounts the failures of love and the body with his signature humor, verbal banter, and wild imaginative leaps. Embracing the elegiac, angry, and amorous with surrealistic wordplay and off-kilter music, Young coaxes us to fall higher into an intimate, vulnerable, expansive exchange. This is a major new book by one of America's most inventive poets.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50 page description of you sleeping,
another 75 of what you think staring out
a window. I don't care about the plot
although I suppose there will have to be one,
the usual separation of the lovers, turbulent
seas, danger of de-commission in spite
of constant war, time in gulps and glitches
passing, squibs of threnody, a fallen nest,
speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled
out-racing the wolves on the steppes, the huge
glittering ball where all that matters
is a kiss at the end of a dark hall . . .

Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.

Dean Young is the author of seventeen books of poetry and poetic theory. His iconic, comedic style is derived from the New York School of Poetry and from contemporary art movements like Surrealism and Dadaism. In an interview with the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Young said, For me the human drama, the squishy, time-limited pulse, is always at the center of the poem. His book Elegy on Toy Piano was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, and his work has been celebrated with the Academy Award in Literature and the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Dean Young served as the Texas Poet Laurate and has received multiple fellowships, including the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, the Stegner Fellowship, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He currently holds the position of William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas, Austin.

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ISBN 13	9781556593116
ISBN 10	1556593112
Title	Fall Higher
Author	Dean Young
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Year published	2011-06-09
Number of pages	96
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