Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.
Meanwhile, in Ketchum, Idaho
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intent! now present: no way for blanks, or failed loads.
Need much more, want extras, want action, an end to cares.
Become, try to become; not a failure but a spectacle!
One farewell to arms, obverse
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