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Dean Young


Born
in Columbia, PA, The United States
July 18, 1955

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Genre
Poetry


Dean Young is the author of many collections of poetry, including Shock by Shock, Bender: New and Selected Poems, and Elegy on a Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Average rating: 4.19 · 4,135 ratings · 355 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors
The Art of Recklessness: Po...
4.13 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Elegy On Toy Piano (Pitt Po...
4.08 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Skid (Pitt Poetry Series)
4.19 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Embryoyo: New Poems
4.13 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Fall Higher
4.18 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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First Course In Turbulence ...
4.33 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Bender: New and Selected Poems
4.32 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Primitive Mentor (Pitt Poet...
4.14 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Strike Anywhere
4.14 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1995
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Shock by Shock
4.22 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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“You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.”
― Dean Young
tags: darkness, hard-times
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“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.”
― Dean Young
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“A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
― Dean Young, Skid
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