(b. 1955– )
U.S. poet and professor
Dean Young
We were not children together but we are now.
“Dear Friend,” in Embryoyo: New Poems (San Francisco, CA: Believer Books, 2007), 76.
Poetry is an art of beginnings and ends. You want middles, read novels. You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2010), 86.