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Summary: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY, DON'T KNOW MUCH 'BOUT POETRY!
Review: Dean Young is becoming one of the most dazzling poets writing. First Course in Turbulence is not only Young's best book, but one of the best poetry books of the year. He has the ability to convey simple human truths in delightful--humorous, wacky, bizarre--ways. He works by association, and he works quickly, providing his readers with a wild and utterly thrilling ride.
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Summary: The Duchamp of Poetry
Review: For a few books now Young has been steadily traveling the highway of surrealism. "In First Course in Turbulence" though, Young's wheels hop from the highway and into the stars. This book is wild and associative, beautifully illogical. What Young creates for me is way beyond surreal-- its Duchampish, Dadaistic as he teases and resists, reshapes the senses.
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Summary: This book saved my life!
Review: I read my first Dean Young poem on the Poetry Daily website, and fell in love with his wonderfully true yet strange voice. He weaves together timeless themes with current cultural references in a seamless way that will immediately have you thinking, "Yes, that's exactly the way it is." I covet his poems; they are on my refrigerator and my office bulletin board. They should be on billboards and in airports and perhaps even beamed up to the moon. Especially if you love the NY School of Poetry (Koch, Ashbery, Schuyler, and O'Hara), you will love Dean Young, too.
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Summary: This book saved my life!
Review: I read my first Dean Young poem on the Poetry Daily website, and fell in love with his wonderfully true yet strange voice. He weaves together timeless themes with current cultural references in a seamless way that will immediately have you thinking, "Yes, that's exactly the way it is." I covet his poems; they are on my refrigerator and my office bulletin board. They should be on billboards and in airports and perhaps even beamed up to the moon. Especially if you love the NY School of Poetry (Koch, Ashbery, Schuyler, and O'Hara), you will love Dean Young, too.
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Summary: pooh poohon texas
Review: Reading Dean Young for the first time, I felt the way I felt upon discovering William Matthews or James Tate. Young is a major new poet, one who uses language and stream-of-consciousness in consistently interesting ways.
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Summary: pooh poohon texas
Review: that thar texin' dont know what he's talkin' 'bout.
barly made a lick of sense.dean is a marvelous invention. if you read him you will discover pleasant sensations throughout your body.
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Summary: To not read Dean Young is a serious disease...
Review: To not read Dean Young is a serious disease, something like never tasting ice cream. The poems in First Course in Turbulence have helped me in my life and my own writing. If you are a lover, read Dean Young. If you are a poet, read Dean Young. If you are suffering from some vague, psychosomatic illness, read Dean Young. These poems will help you heal. These are poems to read aloud, preferably after a huge meal. Alternately, I suggest reading these poems in bed, with the man or woman you love, or perhaps on the beach, with a few friends and a few beers.
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