"Young is one of the leading literary lights of his generation ... His is preeminently a poetry of place. For decades now, he has told this story with deep beauty and grace ... His strengths are the marvelous tensility and acrobatic hijinks of language, the deep emotional pull and breath of family and loved ones that moves just under the skin of all these poems, the seemingly effortless invention in the imaginary."--Charles Wright. "In [Black Lab], Young's tenth [book], he's clearly at the top of his game."--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland). "Convincing proof that Young ... is one of our best poets ... There are poems [in The Planet on the Desk] that serve to distill the essence of the times in which they were written."--The Wallace Stevens Journal. "[Young is] the ordinary citizen, though happier than most, who is alert to the contemporary world of war, revolution, and great men that impinge on his personal experience of family love and attachment ... [His] poems ... give us the pleasure of inhabiting a richly meaningful world."--The New York Times Book Review. "Young engages the demands of language and imagination with humility, humor, and extraordinary verbal resourcefulness ... One
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