Reviews of The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost

"Titles of volumes of poetry in their striving to connect often mislead or turn out to be irrelevant, but this title is key to understanding what the poet is doing.  By being lost in the moment we adore it, we respect it, and, above all, we do not forfeit our lives to remorse and anxiety about what comes next.  By becoming lost in these poems one finds one's life.

"With some poets, even the most acknowledged, you sometimes get the sense of a striving for elegance, but Michael Young conveys that incomparable sense of having an elegant mind."
--Djelloul Marbrook, Coal Hill Review.

"In Young’s title, the abstract noun lost is concretized in poems that depict the poet as a wanderer in both familiar and foreign locations."  Therese Halsheid's full review of The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost can be read at Entropy.

Reviews of Living in the Counterpoint

"Beyond all the pleasing particulars and intangibles, I just like the writing and the book's idea, the inventiveness of vision, vocabulary and syntax, the integration of word—sounds and word—pictures; all the poems are self—standing, as well as doing the hard brick—and—mortar work of making a solid  structure of a theme. Michael T. Young's Living in the Counterpoint is built like a sturdy house with plenty of windows and comfortable furnishings,  a house intended not as a fortress against the world, but a shelter for living fully in it; in this house, you can walk in and sit down and have a fine read."
-- Richard Levine, NYCBigCityLit

"So strong and beautiful is Living in the Counterpoint that the collection as a
whole has no apologies to make to most of the full-length collections, even by brand-name poets, that often contain enough filler to weaken their overall effect. Like Fagiani, Young has fashioned a memorable collection of about twenty pages, which Finishing Line Press has turned into a work of art that justifies the value of the poetry chapbook."
-- George Held, Wilderness House Literary Review

Interviews

Interviewed by Monique Antonette Lewis for At the Inkwell.

Reciting and discussing "The Word 'Anyway'" and other topics.  Hosted by Justin Woo on IndieFeed.

Reciting and discussing "The Generosity of the Past" and other topics.  Hosted by Justin Woo on IndieFeed.

Interview discussion about Living in the Counterpoint on LitBridge's series Next Big Thing. "Titles of volumes of poetry in their striving to connect often mislead or turn out to be irrelevant, but this title is key to understanding what the poet is doing.  By being lost in the moment we adore it, we respect it, and, above all, we do not forfeit our lives to remorse and anxiety about what comes next.  By becoming lost in these poems one finds one's life.