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by Brian Young

Overview

A certain slant lubricates Young's second book of poems. Lines of verse veer top-speed around corners, producing unexpectedly lucid interrogations. Anger is allowed, and disillusionment, and a general mistrust of landscape—the natural world owned and used—all countered with the anodyne of an inebriate sensibility that loves the liquor it bathes in, the language by which it collaborates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934200155
Publisher:	Fence Magazine, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Brian Young's first book of poems was The Full Night in the Street Water (University of Nevada Press). He lives near St. Louis, Missouri.

What People are Saying About This

Elizabeth Arnold

"In Brian Young's new book, 'wolving brainwork' cuts a jagged swath through the presumptions of the republic. Coming as they do from the perspective of an implicated speaker, the political swipes avoid any hint of preaching or self-pity. In fact, true vision intervenes quite often, transporting the reader momentarily--and more forcefully, therefore--out of the more or less hellish existence that is, however, to a great extent itself the result of just how clearly this poet sees what's really happening. These brilliantly sounded poems swallow-tail, then snake. We're held, leaning forward in our seats."