Elegy On Toy Piano

by Dean Young

Book Overview

In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea takes precedence over another, and their simultaneity is frequently revealed; sadness may throw a squirrelly shadow, joy can find itself dressed in mourning black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958724
• ISBN13: 9780822958727
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"