Elegy On Toy Piano by Young, Dean

Elegy On Toy Piano (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822958727)

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Elegy On Toy Piano by Young, Dean

Elegy On Toy Piano

$18.00
Elegy On Toy Piano by Young, Dean

Elegy On Toy Piano

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated \u0022Whirlpool Suite\u0022: \u0022Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline.\u0022 In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.

Author: Dean Young
ISBN-10: 0822958724
ISBN-13: 9780822958727
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2005
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.30w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/24/2005 pg. 236
By Dean Young
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Dean Young has published several books of poetry, including his 2005 collection, Elegy on Toy Piano, afinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His collection Skid was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. Young has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and in the Warren Wilson Low Residency Program.

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