Carl Phillips
"These are poems of formal grace and slant homage, map-and-dazzle, a vision as lush as...refreshingly exacting."


Rosanna Warren
"This book is dignified, subtle, feelingful, and delicate. I admire...[the poems'] willingness to flirt with the metaphysical..."


Washington Post Book World, January 13, 2002
[Young] confidently locates himself at the crucial intersection between body and soul, invoking [the] poet-healer, William Carlos Williams.


Lifestyle & Travel for Physicians, Sept/Oct 2001
[Young's] disciplined approach to writing poetry has certainly proven fruitful. [His poems] are polished. . . based primarily on the visual.


Finalist, Norma Farber Award, April 15, 2002
THE DAY UNDERNEATH THE DAY is one of six finalists for the 2002 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber Award.


VERSE Magazine, October 2002
A subversive yet lyrically entrancing depiction of Christobal Colon's Spanish invasion into the Caribbean islands.


Book Description
The Day Underneath the Day is the first book of poetry by C. Dale Young. It was a finalist for the 2002 Norma Farber Award given by the Poetry Society of America for the best first collection of poems published in the previous year and a finalist for the 2002 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Gifted with a sense of language both exacting and vivid, C. Dale Young explores the surface and depth of experience in The Day Underneath the Day. In its precision and revelations, his poetry resembles an intricate anatomy lesson, probing the natural world and human relationships to reveal the patterns that underlie the unruliness of life.


From the Publisher
The first book of poetry by a promising young writer Gifted with a vivid and exact skill, Young’s writing resembles an intricate anatomy lesson. His powers of observation probe the small energies of the natural world. Again and again the ordinary details of life transform themselves under the delicate pressure of his words—the movement of birds’ wings, the color and texture of tropical flowers, the study of the ocean waves, the "scalpel of light" cutting through the beginning of the day. The language of Young’s poems evokes an ultimate sense of place through a gorgeous marriage of tone and diction that echoes James Merrill and Amy Clampitt. As he meticulously maps out human passions and emotions, he explores both the surfaces and depths of everything that he surveys. His confident and polished verse unfolds intricate layers of landscape, seeking the order that lies beneath the unruly patterns of our lives. Text copyright, Northwestern University Press Spring/Summer 2001 catalog

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The first book of poetry by a promising young writer .

Gifted with a vivid and exact skill, Young's writing resembles an intricate anatomy lesson. His powers of observation probe the small energies of the natural world. Again and again the ordinary details of life transform themselves under the delicate pressure of his words-the movement of birds' wings, the color and texture of tropical flowers, the study of the ocean waves, the "scalpel of light" cutting through the beginning of the day. The language of Young's poems evokes an ultimate sense of place through a gorgeous marriage of tone and diction that echoes James Merrill and Amy Clampitt. As he meticulously maps out human passions and emotions, he explores both the surfaces and depths of everything that he surveys. His confident and polished verse unfolds intricate layers of landscape, seeking the order that lies beneath the unruly patterns of our lives.

About the Author:C. Dale Young grew up in the Caribbean and south Florida. He received both M.F.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Florida. He now practices medicine at the University of California in San Francisco and also serves as the poetry editor of New England Review. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry 1996, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and Yale Review.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

This book is dignified, subtle, feelingful, and delicate. I admire the understated thoughtfulness of many of these poems, their willingness to flirt with the metaphysical while remaining deeply motivated by the visual, tactile world.  — Rosanna Warren

Accomplished￯﾿ﾽ. His style is sensuous and fine, with a special care for the exact word. — Donald Justice