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1 y separately published work icon Songs to Come for the Salamander : Poems 2013-2021 Mark Young , California : Sandy Press Meritage Press , 2021 23779723 2021 selected work poetry 'Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young’s poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty "democracy" registers the claim that "no-one// knows the/ words to" the "song" (the concept of democracy) even though "every-/ one sings" it, and "since violence is learned" tells us that "tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma." Although nothing in the poems—not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as "Constant Craving," which speaks of music "that acts as/ axis to steady everything around"—makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions.' 

from the Introduction by Thomas Fink
1 y separately published work icon Some More Strange Meterorites Mark Young , San Francisco New York (City) : Meritage Press i.e. Press , 2017 21071167 2017 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Hotus Potus Mark Young , San Francisco : Meritage Press , 2015 10434653 2015 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Pelican Dreaming : Poems 1959-2008 Mark Young , San Francisco : Meritage Press , 2008 Z1660857 2008 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Vol. II Jean Vengua (editor), Mark Young (editor), San Francisco Finland : Meritage Press xPress(ed) , 2008 21070402 2008 anthology poetry

'Since The First Hay(na)ku Anthology's release in 2005, the hay(na)ku has appeared in many literary journals, anthologies, and single-author poetry collections worldwide. Artists have created visual hay(na)ku. The form has been written in Spanish, English, French, Finnish, Dutch, Tagalog, and Norwegian. It has been taught in classrooms, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) features an hay(na)ku webpage in their online journal, Periodioco de Poesia. Members of UNAM's Faculty of Literature and Philosophy are also preparing a full Spanish translation of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology for future release. Reflecting the hay(na)ku's continued popularity, this volume is released just three years after the first hay(na)ku anthology. A third anthology is also in the works. We hope readers enjoy this volume, an dare encouraged to try writing their own hay(na)ku! For this poetic form also was created as an Invitation to Poetry.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon The First Hay(na)ku Anthology Mark Young (editor), Jean Vengua (editor), San Francisco Finland : Meritage Press xPressed , 2005 10434998 2005 anthology poetry

An anthology of hay(na)ku, a poem form that is similar to but distinct from the haiku: like haiku, hay(na)ku are short poems (six words in three lines), but they lack the syllabic and subject-specific formality of haiku.

Hay(na)ku were invented by Eileen Tabios, an American poet who is behind small publisher Meritage Press. The form in connected to the Philippines (the name is not Tagalog, but corresponds to a Tagalog phrase), and was formally inaugurated online on 12 June 2003 (Philippine Independence Day).

Source: The Hay(na)ku Verse Form (http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm#history). (Sighted: 17/11/2016)
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