Bender - by Dean Young (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Young's <i>Bender</i> is a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be. That's as good a definition of contemporary poetry as any.--NPR</p><p>This book reads like a long, breathless thank you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy.-- <i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>The reader's mind shoots through [Young's poems] like the steel ball in a pinball machine, dinging around, racking up points. Dean's poems are amazingly fun.-- <i>BOMB</i></p><p>After 10 books over 20-odd years, Young has become one of our most imitated poets: his jocular jumps from topic to topic, debts to Surrealist dream-logic, mixture of postmodern oddity, stand-up comedy and weighty pathos land his work somewhere between John Ashbery (to whom Young owes much) and Billy Collins (whose affability Young shares). --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><p>Young revitalizes the lyric by reminding us that Art must never be less explosive and majestic and joyous than Life, lest it not only be no temporary substitute for Life but also no fitting representation of (or challenge to) life's regularities and irregularities. Bender will make you laugh, reflect, and marvel at how the contrary impulses and instantiations of both Life and Art can so readily be distilled in the sensibilities of a single man, or--in the case of <i>Bender</i>--a single book. --<i>The Huffington Post</i></p><p>Dean Young's <i>Bender: New & Selected Poems</i> provides a direct experience with all the stunning possibilities of language at its most sublime.-- <i>The Journal</i><p><b>From Even Funnnier Looking Now: </b></p><p><i>If someone had asked me then, <br>Do you suffer from the umbrage of dawn's<br>dark race horses, is your heart a prisoner<br>of raindrops? Hell yes! I would have said<br>or No way! Never would I have said, <br>What could you possibly be talking about?<br>I had just gotten to the twentieth century<br>like a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower.<br>My Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch.<br>I knew I was made of glass but I didn't<br>yet know what glass was made of: hot sand<br>inside me like pee going all the wrong<br>directions, probably into my heart<br>which I knew was made of gold foil<br>glued to dust . . . </i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Dean Young: Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. <p/>
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