Thursday, March 24, 2011

C. Dale Young: A Review and 2 Poems

Torn review in Publisher's Weekly:

"Most of the poems in Young's articulate and honest third collection say something to, and about, the facts of his life: his Catholic and Latino heritage, his years spent in Boston, his residence in San Francisco, his training as a physician, and his self-discovery as a gay man. 'Dear God, what was it you placed in the heart,' he asks, 'not of necessity, but because it is the center/ of all moral forces and impulses?'...

And read 2 poems from the book on Poetry Daily!