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Rising from a welter of muscle confusion, these new poems from Dean Young confront a range of contemporary topics: life, love and the loss of heart. Young writes, "There are voices tangled outside." In THE FOGGIST, his work is cataloging the threads, pointing to the spaces between them and waving. Is it morning where you are?

Portions of this book appeared in various forms in American poetry, Poetry, and Poets & writers"--T.p. verso.

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...

With rapid shifts between subject and tone, sometimes within single poems, Dean Young's latest book explores the kaleidoscopic welter of art and life. Here parody does not exclude the cri de coeur any more than seriousness excludes the joke. With surrealist volatility, these poems are the result of experiments that continue for the reader during each reading. Young moves from reworkings of creation myths, the index of the Norton Anthology of P...