Imagination at the Center: A Profile of Dean Young

by
Kevin Nance
From the September/October 2015 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
8.19.15

If there’s one thing that bores Dean Young, it’s poetry that is consistent. “Consistency is for insects,” he declares. Which is why in his new collection, Shock by Shock, published this month by Copper Canyon Press, the poet doesn’t dwell on the traumatic heart surgery he endured four years ago, but instead embraces the freedom of unreason.