Solar Perplexus
Published on 15. January 2020
88 pages
978-1-61932-209-7 (ISBN)
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In Solar Perplexus, Dean Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward. Suddenly the boundaries of our everyday are shaken-and yet instead of being thrown off balance, our understanding is cracked open. Young holds us between un/reality, tracing the circle of life and death, and exposing the true closeness between extremes. It is this true intimacy that both unsettles and comforts. Solar Perplexus turns identity on its head as it questions self (against) control, with each eerily familiar moment of humor punctuated with an inevitable doubt.
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Solar Perplexus
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11/2019
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- Reality
- Infinitives
- Newborn Poem
- Goals for Recovery
- At Shangyang's
- Tail Feathers
- What We've Gotten Ourselves Into
- Spontaneous Butterfly
- Medical Myths
- Archaic Torso of Me Too
- Flight Path
- Demonic Possession Is ?/¹0 of the Law
- Marriage Poem
- Last Postcard from Salamun
- Unknown Ode
- Weird Window Box
- Camera Ready
- Someone Has to Be Lowered into the Whale Skull for the Ambergris
- Cyclops Stomp
- Dance Event
- Flowers in Handcuffs
- Early-Bird Matinee
- Best Man to the Moon
- 11:45 p.m.
- Anniversary Poem
- New Restrictions
- More Tales from the Crypt
- Paul's Window
- IV Drip
- End of Life Ode
- The Institutionalization of American Poetry
- Pep Talk in a Crater
- Corpse Pose
- Ant-Head Sutures
- Milkweed
- Daily Apocalypse
- 8,000 Whispers
- Sub Club Punch Card
- Parthenogenesis
- Genesis Pants
- My Life as a Hatchet
- Refinery Fire
- Early Study in Levitation
- A Rhythmia
- Among Bulrushes and Sky Scrapers
- Wheelbarrow with Wings
- My Process
- Unprotected
- Sleepers Awake
- Little Back-Row DY
- To Poetry
- Big Fun
- Red Hots on a Cupcake
- My Collage Life
- The Demystification Process
- Small Craft Talk Warning
- Fade Out
- The Science of Thunder
- Silly String
- About the Author
- Books by Dean Young
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special thanks
