The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

Dean Young

167 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry reflective slow-paced

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In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into a...

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