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For the two or three people who haven’t yet read Dean Young’s poetry, I have a little something to let you in on. Dean Young’s poetry changes your brain chemistry. They’re like bowls of rice pudding, at least if you’re planning to eat a lot of rice pudding. As you start reading them, you can actually feel (and maybe hear) your brain buzzing a little bit. This is purely intentional. The title of the book is First Course in Turbulence. I advise you to take the title very literally, because that’s precisely what Dean Young does in his poems. He takes things literally.

It’s one of the best guides to reading his poems. Read the title. Think about the title. In the most Introduction to Literature sense, consider your expectations for what you might get from a poem with that title. Because there is fun ahead! Serious delight. Every conceivable outcome. Serious existentially magnified dilemmas coddled by the imagination. Serious imaginations. Delight in dreadfulness. Coddling in general.

Don’t confuse any of this with Ashbery, though. If rhetoric were a car engine, then both of them would be using the HEMI engine. The difference is Ashbery has his in the Ram Truck. He’s out to do some serious argumentation (have you read “Clypsedra” from *Rivers and Mountains* ? It’s pretty Ram Tough in my mind). Young has had his installed in a PT Cruiser, which isn’t even a Dodge. And he’s left it parked at his brother’s, where he’s standing in as the comedian at his niece’s 7-year-old birthday party. And that’s just the beginning of the story.


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First Course In Turbulence Pitt Poetry Series Dean Young Ed Ochester 9780822956976 Books Reviews

Reading Dean Young for the first time, I felt the way I felt upon discovering William Matthews or James Tate. Young is a major new poet, one who uses language and stream-of-consciousness in consistently interesting ways.
For a few books now Young has been steadily traveling the highway of surrealism. "In First Course in Turbulence" though, Young's wheels hop from the highway and into the stars. This book is wild and associative, beautifully illogical. What Young creates for me is way beyond surreal-- its Duchampish, Dadaistic as he teases and resists, reshapes the senses.
To not read Dean Young is a serious disease, something like never tasting ice cream. The poems in First Course in Turbulence have helped me in my life and my own writing. If you are a lover, read Dean Young. If you are a poet, read Dean Young. If you are suffering from some vague, psychosomatic illness, read Dean Young. These poems will help you heal. These are poems to read aloud, preferably after a huge meal. Alternately, I suggest reading these poems in bed, with the man or woman you love, or perhaps on the beach, with a few friends and a few beers.
I read my first Dean Young poem on the Poetry Daily website, and fell in love with his wonderfully true yet strange voice. He weaves together timeless themes with current cultural references in a seamless way that will immediately have you thinking, "Yes, that's exactly the way it is." I covet his poems; they are on my refrigerator and my office bulletin board. They should be on billboards and in airports and perhaps even beamed up to the moon. Especially if you love the NY School of Poetry (Koch, Ashbery, Schuyler, and O'Hara), you will love Dean Young, too.
For the two or three people who haven’t yet read Dean Young’s poetry, I have a little something to let you in on. Dean Young’s poetry changes your brain chemistry. They’re like bowls of rice pudding, at least if you’re planning to eat a lot of rice pudding. As you start reading them, you can actually feel (and maybe hear) your brain buzzing a little bit. This is purely intentional. The title of the book is First Course in Turbulence. I advise you to take the title very literally, because that’s precisely what Dean Young does in his poems. He takes things literally.

It’s one of the best guides to reading his poems. Read the title. Think about the title. In the most Introduction to Literature sense, consider your expectations for what you might get from a poem with that title. Because there is fun ahead! Serious delight. Every conceivable outcome. Serious existentially magnified dilemmas coddled by the imagination. Serious imaginations. Delight in dreadfulness. Coddling in general.

Don’t confuse any of this with Ashbery, though. If rhetoric were a car engine, then both of them would be using the HEMI engine. The difference is Ashbery has his in the Ram Truck. He’s out to do some serious argumentation (have you read “Clypsedra” from *Rivers and Mountains* ? It’s pretty Ram Tough in my mind). Young has had his installed in a PT Cruiser, which isn’t even a Dodge. And he’s left it parked at his brother’s, where he’s standing in as the comedian at his niece’s 7-year-old birthday party. And that’s just the beginning of the story.