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David Young


Born
in Davenport, Iowa, The United States
December 14, 1936

Died
May 03, 2025

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David Pollock Young was an American poet, translator, editor, literary critic and professor. His work includes 11 volumes of poetry, translations from Italian, Chinese, German, Czech, Dutch, and Spanish, critical work on Shakespeare, Yeats, and modernist poets, and landmark anthologies of prose poetry and magical realism. He co-founded and edited the magazine FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics for its 50 years of publication. Young was Longman Professor Emeritus of English at Oberlin College, and was the recipient of awards including NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.
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Five T'Ang Poets

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4.34 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 859 — 6 editions
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Magical Realist Fiction: An...

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4.08 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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Black Lab

3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Field of Light and Shadow: ...

3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Seasoning: A Poets Year, wi...

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Boxcars

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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At the White Window

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Sweating Out the Winter

3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1969
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Work Lights

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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The Names of a Hare in English

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings3 editions
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“Stretched out side by side, we exhanged confidences, whispers, smiles. Curled up, she fell on my chest and unfolded there like a vegetation of murmurs. She sang in my ear, a little sea shell. She became humble and transparent, clutching my feet like a small animal, calm water. She was so clear I could read all of her thoughts. On certain nights her skin was covered with phosphorescence and to embrace her was to embrace a piece of night tattooed with fire.

— Octavio Paz, from “My Life with the Wave”
David Young, Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology

“Eventually, through death and redefinition, his love and fidelity reward him, training the tormented poet to an understanding of heavenly love and heavenly beauty, values which Laura is able to represent fully only after she has left the earth.”
David Young, Canzoniere

“Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.”
David Young