| Manufactured in the United States of America |
| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Young, Dean,
Strike anywhere: poems / by Dean Young.
ISBN 0-870-81-423-0 |
| Versions of some of these poems appeared in the following magazines: Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Organica, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, New American Writing, Sulfur, and The Three Penny Review. Thanks to those editors. |
| "Upon Hearing of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up" was included in Best American Poetry 1994. |
| "Poem in Which Everyone Survives" was included in Cape Discovery: The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Anthology. |
| Thanks to these friends for their responses to these poems: David Rivard, Mark Halliday, Keith Ratzlaff, Clint McCown, Jim Harms, Roger Mitchell, Dorian Gossy, Linda Charnes, Mary Ruefle, David Wojahn, and Kevin Stein. |
| "All Told" and "Against Classicism" are for Lynda Hull. |
| Thanks to Loyola University of Chicago for leave time, which was instrumental to the completion of the work, and the Illinois Arts Council for an Individual Artist Grant. Special thanks to Christina and Karen at University Press Books, Berkeley. |
| Jacket photo taken by Cornelia Nixon. |
for Tony Hoagland
Cornelia Nixon
& in memory of Gloria Rhoads
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 | A serious moment for the match is when it bursts into flame
And is all alone, living in that instant, that beautiful second for which it
was made.
Kenneth Koch |
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