Dean Young (poet)

Dean Young
at the 2013 National Bookfest
Born1955 (1955)
Columbia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died (aged 67)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationPoet
EducationIndiana University, Bloomington (MFA)
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize finalist

Dean Young (1955 – August 23, 2022) was an American poet in the lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.

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