Dean youngs biography

American poet (–)

Dean Young ( – August 23, ) was an American poet in the lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.

Life and career

Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania in He received his MFA from Indiana University.^[1]

In , Young became the William Livingston Chair of Poetry of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]

His later books included Solar Perplexus, Bender: New and Selected Poems, and Fall Higher.

In an interview,^[3] Young said his poems are about misunderstanding and that tying meaning too closely with understanding is not the intent of his poetry. He found the process of creation to be more important than the work itself: his poems are more demonstrations than expla