Pleasure

Gary Young

A new collection from a master of the prose poem

With subtlety and a big heart, Young pokes around a subject that is seldom written about with the same care and attention to detail as the darker themes of death and pain—pleasure.

In No Other Life, Young examined the scary, unstoppable forces from which we seek shelter. In Pleasure, he doesn't ignore them, but rather turns his gaze on those moments of huddled comfort, and finds joy in his children's raw honesty and in the sensuousness of food, flowers, and everyday life.

Reviews

"Gary Young has honed a sinuous, brief prose-poem form that carries a flavor uniquely its own—unflinching, stringent in beauty, austerely moving."—Jane Hirschfield

"Transparent and refreshing, vital like the stream that flows through the 'insulating mist' of his canyon, Gary Young's beautiful Days flow on in elegant simplicity. This is a book Basho would admire."—Sam Hamill

About the Author

A versatile poet and book artist, Gary Young also edits for the Greenhouse Review Press. His work has been featured in magazines including The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review, and his printing appears in major museums. Young won the William Carlos Williams Award for No Other Life, also available from Heyday Books, in 2003, and is the recipient of the 2009 Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award.