Turpentine
Poetry. "This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. 'A late / afternoon / point of co- / incidence // this bench / in the / Botanical Gardens / shared / with Desnos / & Diogenes' reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. 'Black cockatoos...small white flowers.' This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in 'damp trumpets.' Quote from final poem, 'Damp Trumpets': 'Where are the submarines? I shouted out. You promised you'd drain the swamp so I'd be able to see the submarines that were lying on the bottom.' Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young's keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel's Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman."—Sheila E. Murphy

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Turpentine
Poetry. "This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. 'A late / afternoon / point of co- / incidence // this bench / in the / Botanical Gardens / shared / with Desnos / & Diogenes' reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. 'Black cockatoos...small white flowers.' This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in 'damp trumpets.' Quote from final poem, 'Damp Trumpets': 'Where are the submarines? I shouted out. You promised you'd drain the swamp so I'd be able to see the submarines that were lying on the bottom.' Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young's keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel's Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman."—Sheila E. Murphy

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Turpentine

Turpentine

by Mark Young
Turpentine

Turpentine

by Mark Young

Overview

Poetry. "This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. 'A late / afternoon / point of co- / incidence // this bench / in the / Botanical Gardens / shared / with Desnos / & Diogenes' reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. 'Black cockatoos...small white flowers.' This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in 'damp trumpets.' Quote from final poem, 'Damp Trumpets': 'Where are the submarines? I shouted out. You promised you'd drain the swamp so I'd be able to see the submarines that were lying on the bottom.' Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young's keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel's Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman."—Sheila E. Murphy

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938521638
Publisher: Luna Bisonte Prods
Publication date: 06/15/2020
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Poet Mark Young was born and raised in New Zealand. His visual poetry often enacts language as a field with many possible paths. Playful and allusive in both his vispo and text-based poetry, Young engages words as both sources and objects. Young is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including TURPENTINE (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), TAXONIMIC DRIFT (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019), LES ECHIQUIERS EFFRONTES (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018), Genji Monogatari (2010), and Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008 (2008). With Jean Vengua, Young edited The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (2005). Young's work has been included in the anthology Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960 -1975 (2000). He edits the online journal Otoliths and its paper-based companion press.
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