The Full Night Still In The Street Water

“The Full Night Still in the Street Water is an astonishing book—it portrays a damaged world that is nonetheless ablaze with crystalline beauty and strangeness. Brian Young is a pastoral poet with an imagination and lyric intensity reminiscent of Hopkins. Like the most unique of past and present poetic voices, his begins to seem like the powerful, chanting background music to life rather than that of one person singing.” —Geoffrey Nutter, author of A Summer Evening
 

“Young’s grief is real and therefore inconsolable. His anger is moral and therefore unassuageable. His edge is sustained and is therefore neither mishap nor melodrama.” —Donald Revell, author of Arcady
 

“The poems are troubled or toyed or welcomed into being by Brian Young’s sense that experience is inexplicably yoked to our rendering it in memory, that playfulness in language can help us cope with experience and shape it—but nothing more—that the natural world is being evermore sexualized and humanized and also thus commodified and seduced and lost.” —Dennis Finnell, author of The Gauguin Answer Sheet