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Mike Young is a poet, researcher, and songwriter for Clementine Was Right. He is the author of Tell Yourself You’re Going Home (The Blue Turn 2024, songs), New Mexico Creative Industries Division Study (Creative Startups 2024, plan), Sprezzatura (Publishing Genius 2014, poems), We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010, poems), and Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010, stories). He lives in Denver, CO. ...more

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	Look! Look! Feathers 4.37 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough 4.43 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	MC Oroville's Answering Machine 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Can Make It 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To be present in the world doesn’t make you a present to the world.”
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“I don’t know how you deal with anxiety attacks,
but I tell myself is: OK. OK. It’s OK to feel
you’re about to vomit. Let yourself feel like you can’t breathe. Don’t scold your
feelings just because you’re not
actually having an aneurism. Slash heart attack slash dengue fever. Let that feeling try itself.”
― Mike Young, Sprezzatura

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