Dean Young (1955–2022) published numerous poetry collections, including Fall Higher, Bender: New and Selected Poems, and Solar Perplexus. He also wrote a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Young was the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin.
Photograph by Matt Valentine.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Demonic Possession Is 9/10 of the Law, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2019–2020
- Changing Genres, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2015–2016
- Delphiniums in a Window Box , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- My Brief Careers, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012
- Two Poems, poetry, in Winter 2010