Dean Young: 14 books

Book cover of Shock by Shock
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape."—Chicago Tribune"In Young's work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren't simply food for thought; they're...
Book cover of Bender

Bender

New and Selected Poems

by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

"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."-Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."-BooklistBender gathers...
Book cover of Fall Higher
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

"Young has always stood out for his sharp humor, boundless poetic energy, and sheer readability. If adventurous poetry can sometimes feel like a tenuous tightrope walk, Young's poems feel more like zip lines."-The Boston Globe"This book reads like a long, breathless thank-you for life's seemingly...
Book cover of Elegy On Toy Piano
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2005

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...
Book cover of Skid
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002

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...
Book cover of First Course In Turbulence
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine 1999 Poetry Book of the Year 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...
Book cover of Blondie

Blondie

The Bumstead Family History

by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007

For more than 75 years Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead have been one of America's favorite couples. Through war and peace, through boom and bust, through sexual revolution and social upheaval, Blondie has become the most widely read comic strip in syndication-in 35 languages and in 47 countries. Blondie?the...
Book cover of Fludde

Fludde

Poems

by Peter Mishler, Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the...
Book cover of Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
by Dean Young, Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and...
Book cover of Primitive Mentor
by Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2008

The ninth collection for this Pulitzer Prize finalist, who remains as entertaining, imaginative and inventive as ever.
Book cover of If You Stay
by Adam Dean Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018

Staying late at the office, Dr. Aaron Merlot is attacked and left for dead. "You're dead, faggot. Best you go back to where you came from." When the police arrive, Aaron expects a balding, fat man who will no-doubt show faint interest over yet another gay-bashing case. But...
Book cover of Fear the Reaper
by Taylor Grant, Richard Thomas, Joe McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death. Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists...
Book cover of The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

by Sunya T. Collier, Dean Cristol, Sandra Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Book cover of Star Trek Classics Volume 3: Encounters with the Unknown
by Archer, Nathan; Young, Janine Ellen; Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012

Lost in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 have been seeking a way home for years. But their quest is interrupted by encounters with an astonishing variety of foes - and a few new friends. This collection contains four tales that exemplify all that''s best...
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