Creature Feature by Dean Young

Creature Feature

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Creature Feature

Copper Canyon Press

Creature Feature

by Dean Young

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The heartachingly searching, irreverently wisecracking, and stubbornly uncompromising poems that walked a formal tightwire just before Young's death in 2022.


Creature Feature is Dean Young's first posthumous collection since his death in 2022. More feisty, hilarious, surreal, and heartbreaking than ever, Young and his tireless inventiveness are on full display in fierce poems that refuse to compromise yet are guided by love and amazement at living. These poems resound with risk-taking, mischief, and aching beauty. Young remains committed to the generative possibilities of poetry even as he writes his own elegy again and again.


Young envisioned Creature Feature to serve as the third and final installment in a trilogy that includes Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Together, these three books were imagined during the turbulent years following his successful heart-transplant surgery, and they demonstrate a vigorous recommitment to artistic recklessness and poetic inventiveness. Through all their painful genius, these poems reveal an abiding awareness that time is short and art in our time is more urgent than ever.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556597220
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Dean Young
Published Date:
2026-04-07
Language:
English
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About Dean Young

Born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, Dean Young (1955–2022) was an American poet. He earned an MFA from Indiana University and published numerous collections, among them Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), Primitive Mentor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), Elegy on Toy Piano (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Skid (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), and Strike Anywhere (University Press of Colorado, 1995), which won the Colorado Poetry Prize. He also wrote The Art of Recklessness (Graywolf Press, 2010). Young received Stegner, NEA, and Guggenheim fellowships and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin until his death.

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