Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, imperialism, toxic masculinity. Surreal and satirical, Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of our received ideas.
Table of Content
Old World
Sublunary Life
Paternity Test
Centuars in the Turnpike Woods
Workhorse
From the Incorporated Limits
Salvation Army
Mild Invective
Surf City
General Hospital
Family Farm
To a Feverish Child
Noye
Tenor
Refrain
Blind Minotaur Being Led by a Child
Rations
From the Overflow Hotel
Landscape
Central Casting
The Head in the Orchard
Study for the Boatsman
Geryon
Fludde
Morning Myth
Swim Club Kate in the City of Dis
Haruspex
Human Water
Overall Message
Unreasonable Myth
Demolition
Periphery
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Vision
A Romance
Mount Airy Resort and Casino
On Quality Hill
Boy Rowing Asleep
Little Tom Dacre in Heaven
The Woodman’s Ring
Astrolabe
About the author
Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA from Indiana University. His collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Primitive Mentor (2008), shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. He has also written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010).
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