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Elegy on Toy Piano
For Kenneth Koch
Source: Poetry (October 2003).
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Biography
Poet Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA from Indiana University. Recognized as one of the most energetic, influential poets writing today, his numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Primitive Mentor (2008), . . .
Poems by Dean Young
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death, Poetry & Poets
POET’S REGION U.S., Southwestern
Poetic Terms Elegy
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