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Dean Young (1955 – August 23, 2022) was an American contemporary poet in the lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.
He has also written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010). Influenced by the New York School poets, and Surrealists such as Andre Breton, Young’s poetry is full of wild leaps of illogic, extravagant imagery, and mercurial shifts in tone.
Dean Young - Largely influenced by the New York School of poets, Dean Young combines aspects of experimentation and surrealism in his poems.
Romanticism 101 | The Poetry Foundation. By Dean Young. Then I realized I hadn’t secured the boat. Then I realized my friend had lied to me. Then I realized my dog was gone. no matter how much I called in the rain. All was change. Then I realized I was surrounded by aliens. disguised as orthodontists having a convention. at the hotel breakfast bar.
An interview with poet Dean Young, a former UT professor and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, where he discusses poetry in its historical context, as a work ...
In an interview with Suzanne Parker, poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dean Young, author of eleven books of poetry, talks about instability, transgression, a...
An inventive and vital voice in American letters, Dean Young first fell in love with poetry during his childhood in Pennsylvania, when in the third grade he “started writing and never stopped.”
