Skid

Dean Young is one of the premier surrealist poets writing today. In Skid, his fifth book of poems, social outrage vies with comic excess. He embraces the autobiographical urge with fury and musically lush exclamations. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the imagination, these poems proclaim vitality and alertness, wasting nothing. From Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner's "Meep! Meep!" to remembrances of lost loves and laments about the future, Young's poems reveal his faith in the genius of calamity and the redemptive power of fun.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 01/31/2002
ISBN: 9780822957805
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.27w x 0.35d
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 986
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002 pg. 58