"Although his work comes out of the poetries of Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara and James Tate, Young has his own original voice. The language, the invention, the imagination, and the sheer fun of his poems is astounding. Its not all dazzle either. The poems are also moving. This man reminds us that there is nothing more serious than a joke." -- Charles Simic, final judge and author of Jackstraws, Walking the Black Cat, and A Wedding in Hell
