Day Underneath the Day

"It is not only Young's poetic vantage point from within the medical profession that makes him such a compelling authority on our multifaceted humanity; in other poems, he also writes from his identities as a person of color and a gay man. His poems about his native Jamaica are at once tropically overgrown and sensuously ordered, as if he were a cross between Derek Walcott and James Merrill. The collision of unlike worlds -- the paradise of the Caribbean island with the regimentation of the Spanish and later British colonial powers -- is painfully apparent as the poems struggle against received forms to express their wisdom."Young, C. Dale is the author of 'Day Underneath the Day' with ISBN 9780810151116 and ISBN 0810151111.