Bender New and Selected Poems Author:Dean Young "In Young's work, the big essential questions?mortality, identity, the meaning of life?aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."?Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."?BooklistBender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean... more » Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Dean Young's poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, and the exposed nerves of heartache. As the American Academy of Arts and Letters raved, "Young's poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymus Bosch. He is one of the most inventive and satisfying poets writing today."From "Even Funnnier Looking Now":If someone had asked me then,