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In \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Elegy on Toy Piano\u0026lt;/i\u0026gt;, Dean Young\u0026#39;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\u0026#39;s evanescence. Even in single poems, Young\u0026#39;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. As in the agitated \u0026quot;Whirlpool Suite\u0026quot;: \u0026quot;Pain / and pleasure are two signals carried / over one phoneline.\u0026quot; In taking up subjects as slight as the examination of a signature or a true/false test, and as pressing as the death of friends, Young\u0026#39;s poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay. |
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