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No Other Life Gary Young Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2003 William Carlos Williams Award "She took my two hands in hers, pressed and caressed them as if she were bathing me. I held hers as mine were held, stroked her knuckles, her palms, then realized that the finger I lightly traced was my own. How strange to find I could show myself such tenderness."—from Days In lean prose poems, trimmed of extraneous words yet full of unsettling details, Gary Young exposes our collective tragedies. No Other Life brings together in one volume the three books of Young’s trilogy: Days, Braver Deeds, and If He Had. "Our life is one catastrophe after another. Disaster dogs us. I’m the luckiest man alive, and you know what that means. Earthquakes, landslides, falling trees. Wind and rain and rising waters. What the hell, we survive. The coyotes are screaming on the other side of the field; it’s a strange music. The stars are out. It’s lovely here, and like the world, I marry you every day."—from If He Had Heyday Books is pleased to bring back into print this treasure of a book, with a new design and cover art by the poet. |
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"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 "Gary Young’s project in Braver Deeds is to ask unsentimentally what a body’s terms are, how much it can take. His answers are the more affecting for how formal he has had to make them. Loosen just a hair, his poems imply, and it won’t seem worth it to go on." —James McMichael "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 |
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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 print work appears in major museums. Along with Christopher Buckley, he is the editor of Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place. |
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