Background
Young was born on July 18, 1955, in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
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Young received his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Indiana University.
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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.
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2002
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In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black.
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2005
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In Solar Perplexus, Dean Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward. Suddenly the boundaries of our everyday are shaken - and yet instead of being thrown off balance, our understanding is cracked open. Young holds us between un/reality, tracing the circle of life and death, and exposing the true closeness between extremes. It is this true intimacy that both unsettles and comforts. Solar Perplexus turns identity on its head as it questions self (against) control, with each eerily familiar moment of humor punctuated with an inevitable doubt.
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2019
Young was born on July 18, 1955, in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Young received his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Indiana University.
Young has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College, and the University of Texas-Austin where he holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry.
Described as one of the standard-bearers of modern surrealism, poet Dean Young has been the recipient of a variety of fellowships and awards, an acknowledgment that he is being read and heard. Young's first book of poetry, Design with X, was published in 1988, followed by Beloved Infidel in 1992. Publishers Weekly reviewed Beloved Infidel and praised it. "Like many of the 'language poets,' Young seems interested in issues of form vs. formlessness and the tradition of indeterminate language, yet the work remains coherent." His most recent books are Bender: New and Selected Poems, Fall Higher, and The Art of Recklessness.
Strike Anywhere, Young's third collection won the Colorado Poetry Prize in 1995. After 1999's First Course in Turbulence, Young's 2002 collection, Skid, received high marks. His work has been included in The Best American Poetry anthology multiple times, dating back to 1993. Elegy on Toy Piano was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Young was the Poet Laureate for Texas in 2014.
Young himself acknowledges a subtle evolution in his poetry, as he observed on the University of Iowa Web site: "I think my first two books were relatively austere. In the following books, I tried to work toward celebration and joy and goofiness. But life conspires against you, hand you tragedy, proves that nothing can last. I think all of that is more apparent in Skid than it was in First Course in Turbulence."
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2002Young's poetry has been described as witty, exhilarating, and urgent by readers and critics alike. Influenced by the New York School poets, and Surrealists such as Andre Breton, Young’s poetry is full of wild leaps of illogic, extravagant imagery, and mercurial shifts in tone. Using surrealist techniques like collage, Young’s poems often blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, creating poetry that is enormously, almost disruptively, inclusive.
Ploughshares contributor Diann Blakely Shoaf remarked on how Young uses the "slightly cracked and wavy but nonetheless serviceable mirror of contemporary language" to comment on modern life, and concluded that Beloved Infidel is "a book that's a winner of hearts."
Young is married to Cornelia Nixon, a writer.