Elegy on Toy Piano - Paperback

Product detail - Author: Dean Young | ISBN-13: 9780822958727 | Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press | Publication Date: 2005-01-28 | Pages: 76 | Product Dimensions: 133.35 x 212 x 6.35mm | Weight: 158.7573295g |

In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black As in the agitated ""Whirlpool Suite"": ""Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline."" In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.