The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems, 1960–1990 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Young, David

9780819511898: The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems, 1960–1990 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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ISBN 10: 0819511897 ISBN 13: 9780819511898

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1991

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5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 90-50913

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Whether it is the passing of loud, endless freights, a peaceful meadow of mushrooms, or the grandeur of history or the universe, Young takes things into his hands and examines them closely, trying to know them truly. An illuminated globe on his desk serves mostly as a nightlight for his boys. "Our models: they're touching and absurd,/ magical for both their truth and falsehood." Young's poems are about models, miniatures of the world, which might be better understood. Thus, America is a tattooed lady worrying a former president who is stumping again and looking for a good place but finding only a worrisome pulse. People walk out of history in these poems, and literary figures are remembered. Young's 30 years of writing have allowed him to travel lots of ground--geographic, thematic, and technical. His range moves him through prose poems, sonnets, haiku, and, most recently, the Persian ghazal. For all larger collections.
- Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
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