First Course In Turbulence

by Dean Young

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822979364
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	04/01/1999
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	375 KB

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.

Table of Contents

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