{"product_id":"creature-feature","title":"Creature Feature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe heartachingly searching, irreverently wisecracking, and stubbornly uncompromising poems that walked a formal tightwire just before Young's death in 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreature Feature\u003c\/i\u003e is Dean Young's first posthumous collection since his death in 2022. More feisty, hilarious, surreal, and heartbreaking than ever, Young and his tireless inventiveness are on full display in fierce poems that refuse to compromise yet are guided by love and amazement at living. These poems resound with risk-taking, mischief, and aching beauty. Young remains committed to the generative possibilities of poetry even as he writes his own elegy again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung envisioned \u003ci\u003eCreature Feature\u003c\/i\u003e to serve as the third and final installment in a trilogy that includes \u003ci\u003eShock by Shock\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eSolar Perplexus\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Together, these three books were imagined during the turbulent years following his successful heart-transplant surgery, and they demonstrate a vigorous recommitment to artistic recklessness and poetic inventiveness. Through all their painful genius, these poems reveal an abiding awareness that time is short and art in our time is more urgent than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Young","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47604865925356,"sku":"9781556597220","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781556597220.jpg?v=1778113544","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/creature-feature","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}