The Complete Post Person Poems

Today the postal service brought me all those things that the post-men & -women have brought
me over the last twenty years. Some things brought me joy, some despair. Some made me
laugh. But all grist for the poet's ironic mill.

One never knows what's going to turn up in Mark's mail. I've even turned up - all 6'7" of me - in the postbag. Every page holds a surprise. Mark delivers! -Tom Beckett

In The Complete Post Person Poems, Mark Young delivers "the can" or rather, cans "of worms/ I'd always/ wanted to open." Master builder/decorator of "a room to put/ the elephant in," Young helps us achieve some measure of "Gunk Control" through an ironic, fiercely punny wit that is replete with cogent historical and current allusions and accounts of wild misprisions. His "melodious thunks" provide superb rejoinders to the "polemic/ pandemic" that assails the globe.
-Thomas Fink

In The Complete Post Person Poems intellectual Tom-Foolery via the official postal system has at it at full speed! - Cathy M. Bennett

All writers have a fraught relationship with the postal service. Mark Young's remedy is The Complete Post Person's Poems, a uniquely multifaceted otherworldly disco ball showering kaleidoscopic colors down onto poetry's dance floor. Shake that thang. -Pat Nolan

The Complete Post Person Poems does nothing less than bring the world to you. How lucky we are to receive Mark Young's mail. -Brad Liening

After reading this book, I will never think of aubergines in the same way again. Now I must realize: I don't even know what an aubergine is. And the author makes me feel funny about my subscription to the Conspiracy Theory Quarterly. I think he did this on purpose. He is dangerous and no one should read this book. -Mark Cunningham

Mark Young picks a thread in a ball of golden wool and gives it a pull and it never ends. Magic everywhere. -John Geraets

Chance and its output, notably infinite shades of humor, when examined and relished, teach even beyond experience, offering as a bonus "a room to put the elephant in." -Sheila E. Murphy

Mark Young has given the meaning of a postman's "meaning" in meaning a delivery god. Send and ye shall receive.
-harry k stammer

Mark Young IS the Complete Post Person, delivering to us all the news we need to read, to reread, to remember. For these poems we will remember. Here he's given us back so much of our world - the terrible and the terrific - and for that we need to say: thank you, Mark.
- Michael Gottlieb

Don't
call me
biased for concluding

the Hay(na)ku created
its best
poem

because its postman
delivered with
sensitivity
-Eileen R. Tabios