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. Whether through the dark facts of mortality or the celebratory surprises of the imagination, these poems proclaim vitality and alertness, wasting nothing. From Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner's "Meep! Meep!" to remembrances of lost loves and laments about the future, Young's poems reveal his faith in the genius of calamity and the redemptive power of fun.
- ISBN10 1306554470
- ISBN13 9781306554473
- Publish Date 1 January 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Pages 111
- Language English