Dean Young has published eight previous books, most recently elegy on toy piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Embryoyo. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Dear Reader
p. 1
1
What Form after Death
p. 5
Disappearing Ink
p. 6
Washing in Cold Water
p. 7
Self Search
p. 8
The Great Loneliness
p. 10
Gruss
p. 11
Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green
p. 12
Mannerist
p. 14
My Outlook on Life
p. 16
Enter Fortinbras
p. 17
Psalm
p. 18
2
Flood Plain
p. 21
Desert Ode
p. 22
Liverwurst
p. 24
Wheelchair Race
p. 25
Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy
p. 27
Gawker
p. 29
From the Get-Go
p. 31
Admissions Policy
p. 33
Sex with Strangers
p. 35
Poem on a Theme by Tony Hoagland
p. 37
Force of Rabbit
p. 39
Briar
p. 42
3
You
p. 47
Learning to Live with Bliss
p. 48
Triage
p. 50
Fire Ode
p. 51
Ash Ode
p. 52
Lots of Questions
p. 53
Earth Science Lab Partner
p. 54
Private Waterfall
p. 56
Lives of the Primitives
p. 58
Pelt
p. 60
Lives of the Orphans
p. 61
Sparkler
p. 63
An Orgasm Is a Spaceship
p. 64
Our Kind of People
p. 65
My Itty Void
p. 67
Procession
p. 68
4
Half Story Half-Life
p. 73
The Hour Light Streams through the House
p. 74
Scatteration
p. 75
Acorn Hitting a Tin Roof
p. 76
The Pure Intention of the Hornet
p. 77
Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus
p. 79
Like My Older Sister
p. 81
Blue Limbo
p. 83
Rose Prick
p. 85
Oddly Folded Bird
p. 86
Grave Tour
p. 87
Exit Exam
p. 89
Afterward
p. 93
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