Bender

In Bender, Dean Young’s collection of new and selected poetry, readers are treated to an array of Young’s prolific, inimitable work. Across the years, Young’s style has stayed consistently inconsistent, reliably innovative. It is this incongruity that benefits and frees Young’s work from poetic constraints. Bender gives readers opportunity to see Young’s surreal word play and witness Young, through the course of his career, become an iconoclastic force in American poetry.