Telling the Future Off Author:Stephanie Young Poetry. Stephanie Young's long-awaited debut, Telling The Future Off, ensnares the reader in a loop of theatrical-sets, filtered through the obsessive-compulsive call and response of self-help tag-lines. It's 3:30 at the office and the landscape is all twisted up in the bedsheets, littered with car radios, eyeshadow, and circuit training. In t... more »he distance, the internet drones. Telling The Future Off is built of the poetry of today, of realism colliding with the dream-state. In it, Young poses questions and offers answers but never does she waver.« less