Skid (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822957805)

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.

Author: Dean Young
ISBN-10: 0822957809
ISBN-13: 9780822957805
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2002
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.27w x 0.35d
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 986
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002 pg. 58