My Brief Careers

Dean Young has published eleven books of poetry, including Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize; Primitive Mentor, a finalist for the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize; and Fall Higher (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). He has also written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Young is the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin.

Photograph by Matt Valentine.