{"product_id":"elegy-on-toy-piano-9780822958727","title":"Elegy On Toy Piano","description":"In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young'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's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young'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 \\u0022Whirlpool Suite\\u0022: \\u0022Pain \/ and pleasure are two signals carried \/ over one phoneline.\\u0022 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's poems embrace the duplicity of feeling, the malleability of perception, and the truth telling of wordplay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDean Young\u003c\/b\u003e has published several books of poetry, including his 2005 collection, \u003ci\u003eElegy on Toy Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e. His collection \u003ci\u003eSkid\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. Young has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and in the Warren Wilson Low Residency Program.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461346726162,"sku":"9780822958727","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb285141-5ed4-4077-aab4-b06549581aff.jpg?v=1730064967","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elegy-on-toy-piano-9780822958727","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}