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Poetry
"In Young's work, the big essential questionsmortality, identity, the meaning of lifearen't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."Toronto Star "Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as... See More
United States
"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... See More
Poetry
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... See More
Poetry
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... See More
"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... See More
Poetry
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... See More
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... See More
Poetry
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
Unstuck returns with more than 500 pages of elephant men and minotaurs, magic charms and lost islands, talking dogs and miniature husbands, library urchins and zombie bank robbers, mechanical cattle, and many other... See More
Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
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... See More
Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
Home is where the heart is! Family members! You can't live with them and you can't live without them!! Why would anyone want to live without the Bumsteads? Since 1930, Dagwood and Blondie, along with their children, Cookie... See More
Poetry
The ninth collection for this Pulitzer Prize finalist, who remains as entertaining, imaginative and inventive as ever. See More
The Spring 2003 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Carl Phillips. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
The Winter 2001-02 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jorie Graham. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & FictionThe Spring 2006 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Kevin Young. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & FictionThe Spring 1989 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Maura Stanton. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & FictionThe Winter 1993-94 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Russell Banks & Chase Twichell. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions... See More
Literature & FictionThe Spring 2001 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Heather McHugh. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Literature & FictionThe Winter 2000 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Sherman Alexie. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More