Brian Young is the recipient of fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to teaching at the University of lowa, he has taught at the University of Utah and at a small university in South Korea. He currently lives in Chicago.
"The Full Night Still in the Street Water is an astonishing
book--it portrays a damaged world that is nonetheless ablaze with
crystalline beauty and strangeness. Brian Young is a pastoral poet
with an imagination and lyric intensity reminiscent of Hopkins.
Like the most unique of past and present poetic voices, his begins
to seem like the powerful, chanting background music to life rather
than that of one person singing." --Geoffrey Nutter, author of A
Summer Evening
"The poems are troubled or toyed or welcomed into being by Brian
Young's sense that experience is inexplicably yoked to our
rendering it in memory, that playfulness in language can help us
cope with experience and shape it--but nothing more--that the
natural world is being evermore sexualized and humanized and also
thus commodified and seduced and lost." --Dennis Finnell, author of
The Gauguin Answer Sheet
"Young's grief is real and therefore inconsolable. His anger is
moral and therefore unassuageable. His edge is sustained and is
therefore neither mishap nor melodrama." --Donald Revell, author of
Arcady
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