# Shock by Shock - Hardcover

by **Dean Young** (Author)

Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape.--_Chicago Tribune_

In Young's work, the big essential questions--mortality, identity, the meaning of life--aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment.--_The Sunday Star_ (Toronto)

Dean Young escorts his transplanted heart into invigorating poetic territory that combines the joy of being alive with his signature mixture of surrealism, humor, and fast-cut imagery. A Pulitzer finalist known for his hard-won insights, NPR said it best when they observed that Young sees even in the smallest things the heights of what we can be.

**From Harvest:**

_Bring me the high heart of a trapezist.  
If not, bring me the heart of a drunk monk  
so I may illuminate an ancient text  
in a language I can't understand.  
The brain too is blood, blood racing  
100 miles an hour on training wheels  
so let me splash through a red puddle,  
let me kiss the face of a red puddle,  
let me write my crazed, extreme demands  
on the frost-cracked window of god's split  
chest..._

**Dean Young** is the author of twelve books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin.

### Author Biography

Dean Young: Dean Young has published eleven books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas.

**Number of Pages:** 120

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 9.1 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** December 01, 2015

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