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This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, is an edited collection focused on the significance of theater in regard to wellbeing and human flourishing. Bridging new scholarship in psychology and positive psychology, with new perspectives in theater and performance studies, this volume features eleven prominent theater and performance studies scholars who offer original, previously unpublished examinations of the social b...

After weathering a heart transplant, a divorce, and a friend's death, beloved poet Dean Young explores how personal crisis destabilizes perception, reminding readers that humor guides healing.

You Break It, You Buy It is a very personal view of whatoperational stress injury looks like from the perspective of three veteran first responders. Depression and anxiety disorders come in all shapes and sizes, and are catalysts for broken relationships, broken homes, and tragically, broken lives and suicide. This book was written because of the author's own mental health issues that arose while living the dream.

Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward.

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To read Dean Young's Elegy for the Last Male Northern White Rhino is to know that "One idea is a door can be opened / by pressing your forehead against / a sheet of paper." Meanwhile he is passing through the entryway carrying reams. In this new chapbook he is at work, stacking the broken rowboats as he suggests that there is always one more dimension. He has spent years "in a steel cage counting syllables." Come now. Count with him.

Für Charlie Darby läuft es eigentlich ziemlich gut: Er hat einen großartigen Job als Direktor einer Grundschule, tolle Freunde und insgesamt ein entspanntes Leben. Doch eine Sache fehlt noch: Die Liebe!Denn jedes Mal, wenn er anfängt, Gefühle für jemanden zu entwickeln, dreht er buchstäblich durch. Das ist klinisch bewiesen. Als er die ehemalige Tänzerin Molly Kingston kennenlernt, ist er sich sicher, endlich die Frau fürs Leben gefunden zu ha...

Für Charlie Darby läuft es eigentlich ziemlich gut: Er hat einen großartigen Job als Direktor einer Grundschule, tolle Freunde und insgesamt ein entspanntes Leben. Doch eine Sache fehlt noch: Die Liebe!Denn jedes Mal, wenn er anfängt, Gefühle für jemanden zu entwickeln, dreht er buchstäblich durch. Das ist klinisch bewiesen. Als er die ehemalige Tänzerin Molly Kingston kennenlernt, ist er sich sicher, endlich die Frau fürs Leben gefunden zu ha...

[In Shock by Shock] Young retains his considerable charms: a generous, tragicomic spirit, a guileless love of rhyme, and an acrobatic sense of logic and image." -Publishers Weekly"In Young's work, the big essential questions-mortality, identity, the meaning of life-aren't simply food for thought, they're grounds for entertainment." -The Sunday Star"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets...

After more than 12 years, Dean Young's second book of poetry, Beloved Infidel, is back in print.

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In this book Young presents poems of varying tones and styles, emphasizing the nature of simultaneity and the power of wordplay.

Dean Young's poems are as entertaining and imaginative as a three-ring circus painted by Hieronymous Bosch

Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.” -Publishers Weekly

A long, breathless thank-you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness and joy.” -Los Angeles Times

Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.” -Publishers Weekly

Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.”—Publishers Weekly

The latest book of poetry from Pulitzer Prize finalist Dean Young.

When I saw you ahead I ran two blocks shouting your name then realizing it wasn't you but some alarmed pretender, I went on running, shouting now into the sky, continuing your fame and luster. Since I've been incinerated, I've oft returned to this thought, that all things loved are pursued and never caught.