Gary Young’s prose poems feel like forgotten soulmates. Seemingly unassuming sentences, day-to-day observations, build upon each other, and then in an expert turn, enlightenment takes sudden, luminous flight. Each poem sits with me long after I’ve read it once, twice, more. His new collection, That’s What I Thought, comes out this fall, and I am so looking forward to dipping in and finding new companions.
— Melinda
Description
Winner of the 2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, a moving and playful new collection by a master of the prose poem .
Gary Young builds on his remarkable oeuvre with this heartening volume, his seventh. His new poems, full of the pleasures and concerns of everyday life, brim with subtle wit and wisdom. Set implicitly along the coastal landscape of northern California, Young’s longtime home, they are latest achievements of a poet renown for “the capturing of small, daily miracles” (Dorianne Laux) in his masterful prose poems.
About the Author
Gary
Young is the author of seven poetry collections. His print work is represented
in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert
Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts. He teaches
creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
