Nov 21, 2008
In addition to his fiction, Al Young has produced nonfiction and numerous volumes of poetry, the first being Dancing (1969). His twin themes are the American family and individual maturation. Early in the twentieth century, Ezra Pound warned modern poets that music separated from dance will atrophy, as will poetry separated from music. Accordingly, Young’s love of the rhythms of life places music between poetry and dance. His second volume of poems is entitled The Song Turning Back into Itself (1971). Here, the singer of life confronts...
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