{"product_id":"bender-new-selected-poems-9781556594038","title":"Bender: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Young's \u003ci\u003eBender\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be. That's as good a definition of contemporary poetry as any.\"--NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book reads like a long, breathless thank you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy.\"-- \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reader's mind shoots through [Young's poems] like the steel ball in a pinball machine, dinging around, racking up points. Dean's poems are amazingly fun.\"-- \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After 10 books over 20-odd years, Young has become one of our most imitated poets: his jocular jumps from topic to topic, debts to Surrealist dream-logic, mixture of postmodern oddity, stand-up comedy and weighty pathos land his work somewhere between John Ashbery (to whom Young owes much) and Billy Collins (whose affability Young shares).\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Young revitalizes the lyric by reminding us that Art must never be less explosive and majestic and joyous than Life, lest it not only be no temporary substitute for Life but also no fitting representation of (or challenge to) life's regularities and irregularities. Bender will make you laugh, reflect, and marvel at how the contrary impulses and instantiations of both Life and Art can so readily be distilled in the sensibilities of a single man, or--in the case of \u003ci\u003eBender\u003c\/i\u003e--a single book.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dean Young's \u003ci\u003eBender: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e provides a direct experience with all the stunning possibilities of language at its most sublime.\"-- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Even Funnnier Looking Now\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf someone had asked me then, \u003cbr\u003eDo you suffer from the umbrage of dawn's\u003cbr\u003edark race horses, is your heart a prisoner\u003cbr\u003eof raindrops? Hell yes! I would have said\u003cbr\u003eor No way! Never would I have said, \u003cbr\u003eWhat could you possibly be talking about?\u003cbr\u003eI had just gotten to the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003elike a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower.\u003cbr\u003eMy Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch.\u003cbr\u003eI knew I was made of glass but I didn't\u003cbr\u003eyet know what glass was made of: hot sand\u003cbr\u003einside me like pee going all the wrong\u003cbr\u003edirections, probably into my heart\u003cbr\u003ewhich I knew was made of gold foil\u003cbr\u003eglued to dust . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2012 pg. 148\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dean Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537424249013,"sku":"9781556594038","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_30be5cb0-0ac1-42c8-b05a-1fd59b2ef04f.jpg?v=1779169488","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bender-new-selected-poems-9781556594038","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}