Elegy on Toy Piano

Name: Elegy on Toy Piano
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ISBN: 9780822958727

ISBN-10: 0822958724

ISBN-13: 9780822958727

Edition: 2005

Authors: Dean Young

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InElegy 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 in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black. As in the agitated "Whirlpool Suite": "Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline." In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 1/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Thrown as if fierce & wild


Evening primrose


Glory


Avalanche garden


Original monkey


Ghost gash


Facet


Multi-tasking


Lives of the Olympians


Halflives of Youngonium


Fire is speaking


Lives of the veterans


Little black squirrel


Hammock half in sun


May deaths


Ghost gust


With hidden noise


Sign here


Yawn


Skipping the reception


Lives of the robots


Ghost grease


Alarm clock


Flamenco


Learn by doing


True/false


Bolinas, California


Peach farm


Venus


Flamenco


What's wrong with this picture


Interview


Lives of the mortals


Whoz side u on, anyway?


Shield of moon dust


Tongue doctor


Rabbit, I love you


Whirlpool suite


Is this mic on?


Lemon garlic duck


I said yes I meant no


Bathed in dust and ash


I saw my life go by


Gray matter


Reentry


Bivouacked & garrisoned capitol


Elegy on toy piano


Last words


Rushing through the night