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By Dean Young

“Although his paintings comes out of the poetries of Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara and James Tate, younger has his personal unique voice. The language, the discovery, the mind's eye, and the sheer enjoyable of his poems is fantastic. Its no longer all dazzle both. The poems also are relocating. This guy reminds us that there's not anything extra critical than a joke.”

(Charles Simic, ultimate judge.)

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