Publisher's Synopsis
The Second Person is the latest collection of verse from the editor of the New England Review, C. Dale Young. One of the most distinct and beautiful voices of his generation, Young has created a collection of well-crafted and gorgeous poems, a stunning follow-up to his promising debut, The Day Underneath the Day.;C. Dale Young practices medicine and serves as the poetry editor of the New England Review. He is the author of The Day Underneath the Day, which was a finalist for the 2002 Norma Farber Award. He is a previous winner of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He lives in San Francisco.;From "Proximity" This morning, I felt your hand touch me on the shoulder the way you would when you turned over in your sleep.;What syndrome describes this? Not the sense of touch But of being touched. Waking, I felt my own body, piece by piece, dissolving: my hands, finger by finger,;then the legs and the chest leaving the heart exposed and beating, the traveling pulses of blood expanding the great vessels.
