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We turn loose such poets into our culture so that they can provoke the rest of us into saying everything on our minds.\"--Tony Hoagland, APR\/Honickman First Book Prize judge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dickman crystallizes and celebrates human contact, reminding us...that our best memories, those most worth holding on to, those that might save us, will be memories of love....The background, then, is a downbeat America resolutely of the moment; the style, though, looks back to the singing free verse of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara....(Dickman's) work sings with all the crazy vereve of the West.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Toughness with a smile....(Dickman) breathes the air of Whitman, Kerouac, O'Hara, and Koch, each of whom pushed against the grain of what poetry and writing was supposed to be in their times.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Haven Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll American Poem\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the ecstatic nature of our daily lives. In these unhermetic poems, pop culture and the sacred go hand in hand. As Matthew Dickman said in an interview, he wants the \"people from the community that I come from\"--a blue-collar neighborhood in Portland, Oregon--to get his poems. \"Also, I decided to include anything I wanted in my poems. . . . Pepsi, McDonald's, the word 'ass.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is no one to save us\u003cbr\u003e because there is no need to be saved.\u003cbr\u003e I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed\u003cbr\u003e the front yard. When the stranger wearing a sheer white dress\u003cbr\u003e covered in a million beads\u003cbr\u003e slinks toward me like an over-sexed chandelier suddenly come to life,\u003cbr\u003e I take her hand in mine. I spin her out\u003cbr\u003e and bring her in. This is the almond grove\u003cbr\u003e in the dark slow dance.\u003cbr\u003e It is what we should be doing right now. Scraping\u003cbr\u003e for joy . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatthew Dickman\u003c\/b\u003e is the winner of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eTin House,\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor, with brother Michael Dickman, of \u003ci\u003e50 American Plays.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49584055779601,"sku":"GOR011506099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50053095784721,"sku":"CIN0977639541VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369175093521,"sku":"CIN0977639541G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009992556817,"sku":"NIN9780977639540","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52669466771729,"sku":"NLS9780977639540","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53353005449489,"sku":"GOR007732433","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0977639541.jpg?v=1751203080"},{"product_id":"brother-book-matthew-dickman-9780571330201","title":"Brother","description":"A dual-authored volume of poems from the multi-award winning Dickman twins - leading voices in America's outstanding generation of younger poets.  Although the brothers extol differing inspirations (Matthew writes with the ebullience of Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Michael with the control of William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson), they are unified by the unflinching, remarkable verse they wrote when their older sibling tragically took his own life. It is these moving, grieving but life-affirming poems that solely comprise this dual-authored volume. Published in an inventive tête-bêche edition, the poems appear head-to-toe, communing in the middle, making Brother a searing but ultimately up-lifting journey of grief, love and family.  'Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality . . . together, the resonance of the work is amplified.' New Yorker  Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (2008), 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, 2012), Mayakovsky's Revolver (2012),Wish You Were Here (2013) and 24 HOURS (2014). He is the recipient of The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College and a 2015 Guggenheim award. Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.  Michael Dickman is the author of three books of poems, The End of the West (2009), Flies (2011, Winner of the James Laughlin Award), and Green Migraine (2015), as well as a book of plays, 50 American Plays, co-written with his twin brother, Matthew Dickman, in 2012. 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In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman’s youth, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief, anger, and, ultimately, understanding, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence, well-intentioned but warped family relations, confining definitions of identity, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. 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