{"product_id":"bender-new-selected-poems-hardcover","title":"Bender: New \u0026 Selected Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDean Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung's \u003ci\u003eBender\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of survival and strength, of seeing even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be. That's as good a definition of contemporary poetry as any.--NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reads like a long, breathless thank you for life's seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy.-- \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader's mind shoots through  Young's poems] like the steel ball in a pinball machine, dinging around, racking up points. Dean's poems are amazingly fun.-- \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 10 books over 20-odd years, Young has become one of our most imitated poets: his jocular jumps from topic to topic, debts to Surrealist dream-logic, mixture of postmodern oddity, stand-up comedy and weighty pathos land his work somewhere between John Ashbery (to whom Young owes much) and Billy Collins (whose affability Young shares). --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung revitalizes the lyric by reminding us that Art must never be less explosive and majestic and joyous than Life, lest it not only be no temporary substitute for Life but also no fitting representation of (or challenge to) life's regularities and irregularities. Bender will make you laugh, reflect, and marvel at how the contrary impulses and instantiations of both Life and Art can so readily be distilled in the sensibilities of a single man, or--in the case of \u003ci\u003eBender\u003c\/i\u003e--a single book. --\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean Young's \u003ci\u003eBender: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e provides a direct experience with all the stunning possibilities of language at its most sublime.-- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Even Funnnier Looking Now: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf someone had asked me then, \u003cbr\u003eDo you suffer from the umbrage of dawn's\u003cbr\u003edark race horses, is your heart a prisoner\u003cbr\u003eof raindrops? Hell yes  I would have said\u003cbr\u003eor No way  Never would I have said, \u003cbr\u003eWhat could you possibly be talking about?\u003cbr\u003eI had just gotten to the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003elike a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower.\u003cbr\u003eMy Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch.\u003cbr\u003eI knew I was made of glass but I didn't\u003cbr\u003eyet know what glass was made of: hot sand\u003cbr\u003einside me like pee going all the wrong\u003cbr\u003edirections, probably into my heart\u003cbr\u003ewhich I knew was made of gold foil\u003cbr\u003eglued to dust . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean Young: Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 279\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771608564000,"sku":"9781556594038","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/11e99a41b960d9788b1b41316aa0f5d6.webp?v=1780389453","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bender-new-selected-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}