Works by
C. Dale Young
(Poet)
[April 18, 1969 - ]

Poetry

• TORN (2012 release)

• The Second Person (2007)
  Drawing on traditional forms including the villanelle and pantoum, and writing with an ear for a beautiful, resounding rhythm, C. Dale Young investigates the lessons of the trainee doctor and documents the experiences of the practicing physician, remarking on the ways medicine alone is not enough: "Do not let a man // abandon hope," says Saint Luke. And, as with the remarkable long sequence, "Triptych at the Edge of Sight," these are also poems of intimacy, depicting with rich color and poignant contemplation the way art struggles to "capture [. . .] on canvas. / Memory, do not fail me. Let me try again."

• The Day Underneath the Day (2001) -- Finalist 2002 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award; Finalist 2002 Norma Farber Award
  The Day Underneath the Day is the first book of poetry by C. Dale Young. It was a finalist for the 2002 Norma Farber Award given by the Poetry Society of America for the best first collection of poems published in the previous year and a finalist for the 2002 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Gifted with a sense of language both exacting and vivid, C. Dale Young explores the surface and depth of experience in The Day Underneath the Day. In its precision and revelations, his poetry resembles an intricate anatomy lesson, probing the natural world and human relationships to reveal the patterns that underlie the unruliness of life.