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  • The Art of Recklessness

    Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

    by Dean Young ...
    Series series Art of...
    In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? "Poetry is not a discipline," Young writes. "It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Solar Perplexus

    by Dean Young ...
    In Solar Perplexus, Dean 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. Suddenly the boundaries of our everyday are shaken—and yet instead of being thrown off balance, our understanding is cracked open. Young holds us between un/reality, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • UNTOLD TALES OF I HATE FAIRYLAND #1

    by Skottie Young, Dean Rankine ...
    Series Book 1 - UNTOLD TALES OF I HATE FAIRYLAND
    MINISERIES PREMIERE A five-issue anthology series featuring Untold Tales based on Eisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG's bestselling comic, I HATE FAIRYLAND, with stories written and drawn by a stellar lineup of creators. BULLY WARS co-creators SKOTTIE YOUNG and AARON CONLEY pit Gert against an uncouth barbarian in "Bruud the Brutal." And in "Don't Trust the P.I.G. in Apartment 23," by DEAN ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creature Feature

    by Dean Young ...
    The heartachingly searching, irreverently wisecracking, and stubbornly uncompromising poems that walked a formal tightwire just before Young's death in 2022.Creature Feature is Dean Young's first posthumous collection since his death in 2022. More feisty, hilarious, surreal, and heartbreaking than ever, Young and his tireless inventiveness are on full display in fierce poems that refuse to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last of the Apaches

    by Richard Dean Young ...
    Two North Americans and one Mexican crossed over from Argentina to Uruguay in September of 1917 with the purpose of setting up a Bank heist in the city of Salto. Salto and Paysandú were the two main river cities on the Uruguay River separating this country from Argentina to the west. The gang made Paysandú their headquarters for planning, putting together supplies, purchasing horses and whatever ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bender

    New and Selected Poems

    by Dean Young ...
    "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 a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shock by Shock

    by Dean Young ...
    "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 grounds for entertainment."—The Sunday Star (Toronto)Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blondie

    The Bumstead Family History

    by Dean Young ...
    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 comic strip?was born on September 8, 1930. Dagwood was the rich, but awkward, son of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elegy On Toy Piano

    by Dean Young ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book

    by Dean Young, Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell, Tomaz Salamun, Simone Inguanez, Istvan Laszlo Geher, Ksenia Golubovich ...
    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 lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fall Higher

    by Dean Young ...
    "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 random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy."-Los Angeles TimesFall Higher is a major ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • First Course In Turbulence

    by Dean Young ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 1999 Poetry Book of the YearWith 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD