Jim Young
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Within twenty lines Jim Young will transform you into an appreciative fan of poetry. Throughout In Your Dreams you will repeatedly encounter naked tru
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ths in their many forms – the gravity of love, a dead man’s wine, an American Indian’s diary, a go-go dancer, General Washington, a thousand Chevies, and an Aryan teenage girl. Each poem contains a universal story shared by everyone.
In Your Dreams is a collection of Young’s writings spanning from the 1960’s to the present and represents his dying wish. In September of 1999 Young was diagnosed with cancer and as a final statement to his life he has published this important collection of poems. These writings shall be counted in the annals of contemporary American poetry alongside Robert Lowell, James Wright and Robert Bly.
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