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Mark Young Mark Young i(A19164 works by)
Born: Established: 1941
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Melancholy Mark Young , Ireland : SurVision , 2024 27850890 2024 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Songs to Come for the Salamander : Poems 2013-2021 Mark Young , California : Sandy Press Meritage Press , 2021 23779723 2021 selected work poetry 'Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young’s poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty "democracy" registers the claim that "no-one// knows the/ words to" the "song" (the concept of democracy) even though "every-/ one sings" it, and "since violence is learned" tells us that "tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma." Although nothing in the poems—not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as "Constant Craving," which speaks of music "that acts as/ axis to steady everything around"—makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions.' 

from the Introduction by Thomas Fink
1 y separately published work icon The Sasquatch Walks Among Us Mark Young , California : Sandy Press , 2021 23779680 2021 selected work poetry

'The Sasquatch that walks among us has a wide-ranging wardrobe, ranging from the stylish to the stochastic. Poems about places that may never have existed, or if they did are described in a way that makes them unrecognizable. Poems about people who did exist, but never thought the thoughts that are ascribed to them here. Poems that the Sasquatch themself has inscribed on the walls of the modern-day forest they have come out in.'(Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Toast Mark Young , Columbus : Luna Bisonte Prods , 2021 23779626 2021 selected work poetry

'Maybe it's because "A railroad line runs im-/mediately behind the/parietal lobe." Or maybe it's because "Phallic ritual is a/literary genre that blends/aspects of natural rubber/& cognitive therapy..." I don't know, but Mark Young's poetry opens out into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a total art work, limning our present moment. His work is at once intellectually engaging and truly entertaining. No small feat. I'm a fan. - Tom Beckett' (Publication summary)
1 A Posteriori i "Everyone painted so well despite", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
1 Detected in a Second Regional Town. i "I don’t know if I can ever go back to", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
1 Det Sjunde Inseglet i "The passenger train that runs from the bottom of the state to the top goes by an hour late.", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
1 Stille i "If I knew the", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;
1 A Line from John Maynard Keynes i "It was supposed to be a day of", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
1 A Line from Sara Paretsky (2) i "The ability to digest lactose", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
1 A Line from Foo Fighters i "I know there are failsafe outfits in", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
1 A Line from Joseph R Biden Jr. i "The kinetic typography animation", Mark Young , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March no. 31 2021;
1 Latitude Mark Young , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 14 2020;
1 The Solitary Busker Mark Young , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 14 2020;
1 The Re-discovered First Pages of a Journal Mark Young , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 14 2020;
1 Really Bad Movies, Really Good Movies, and Some Other Things Mark Young , 2020 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 13 2020;
1 La Dolce Vita i "I was born during the Second World War, a", Mark Young , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 12 2019;
1 A Response to an Email from Richard Lopez i "No poetry.", Mark Young , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 12 2019;
1 And Then Went Out into the Wilderness i "My wanderings in the countryside go", Mark Young , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 12 2019;
1 Up Close and Personal Mark Young , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 11 2019;
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