{"product_id":"fall-higher-9781556593116","title":"Fall Higher","description":"\u003cp\u003eDean Young is a high-energy poet. . . . His vigorous, vibrant, fast-paced poems make startling connections.--Judges' citation, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone with a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become a crucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry.--Tony Hoagland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems are astounding.--Charles Simic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean Young surmounts the failures of love and the body with his signature humor, verbal banter, and wild imaginative leaps. Embracing the elegiac, angry, and amorous with surrealistic wordplay and off-kilter music, Young coaxes us to fall higher into an intimate, vulnerable, expansive exchange. This is a major new book by one of America's most inventive poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was satisfied with haiku until I met you, \u003cbr\u003ejar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, \u003cbr\u003ebut now I want a Russian novel, \u003cbr\u003ea 50 page description of you sleeping, \u003cbr\u003eanother 75 of what you think staring out\u003cbr\u003ea window. I don't care about the plot\u003cbr\u003ealthough I suppose there will have to be one, \u003cbr\u003ethe usual separation of the lovers, turbulent\u003cbr\u003eseas, danger of de-commission in spite\u003cbr\u003eof constant war, time in gulps and glitches\u003cbr\u003epassing, squibs of threnody, a fallen nest, \u003cbr\u003especkled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled\u003cbr\u003eout-racing the wolves on the steppes, the huge\u003cbr\u003eglittering ball where all that matters\u003cbr\u003eis a kiss at the end of a dark hall . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDean Young\u003c\/b\u003e has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.\u003c\/p\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 04\/26\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556593116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2011 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dean Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370577629365,"sku":"9781556593116","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_17a44bd0-c161-440f-b562-2cb6d2d7c84e.jpg?v=1663040423","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fall-higher-9781556593116","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}