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- First Course In Turbulence
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 1999 Poetry Book of the Year
With 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.
With 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.
Table of Contents
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- one
- The Infirmament
- pp. 5-18
- The Unattainable
- pp. 6-7
- Acceptance Speech
- pp. 8-9
- He Said Turn Here
- pp. 14-15
- Bird Sanctuary
- pp. 16-17
- Familiar Territory
- pp. 20-21
- The Invention of Heaven
- pp. 22-35
- two
- Only One of My Deaths
- pp. 27-40
- And Because Her Face
- pp. 28-29
- Maybe It Meant Something Else
- pp. 32-33
- Lives of the Inventors
- pp. 34-35
- Mortal Poem
- pp. 36-37
- Arts of Camouflage
- pp. 38-39
- Lives of the Painters
- pp. 40-41
- Unthreatening Gestures
- pp. 44-57
- Chapped Lips
- pp. 45-58
- Faculty Summary Report
- pp. 46-48
- The Oversight Committee
- pp. 49-50
- three
- Guidance Counseling
- pp. 61-62
- A Student in a Distant Land
- pp. 65-66
- Another Hive
- pp. 67-68
- Robert Desnos (1900–1945)
- pp. 69-70
- Archeology
- pp. 71-73
- Drinking from a Puddle
- pp. 74-87
- Agony in the Garden
- pp. 78-79
- The Velvet Underground
- pp. 80-81
- Three Weeks Late
- pp. 86-87
- Easily Bruised
- pp. 88-89
- Lives of the Poets
- pp. 90-92
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 93-107
- About, the Author, Back Cover
- pp. 108-114
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822979364
Related ISBN(s)
9780822940975, 9780822956976
MARC Record
OCLC
887803050
Pages
107
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No