Dean Young responds:
Perhaps Charles Douthat will be pleased to note that the millions my review of my own book generated in sales will be used to set up a foundation to dispense monetary awards to reviewers of contemporary poetry, particularly and exclusively those who favorably review the work of Dean Young.
Poet Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA from Indiana University. Recognized as one of the most energetic, influential poets writing today, his numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; ...