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Throughout, we feel the dazzling originality of Dickman's awareness; he meets the brutality, banality, and strange beauty of the quotidian with a level gaze, and with an urgent musicality that carries us beyond these lines and pages.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49803849859345,"sku":"CIN0525655476G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331019964689,"sku":"CIN0525655476VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525655476.jpg?v=1751230563"},{"product_id":"50-american-plays-poems-book-michael-dickman-9781556593932","title":"50 American Plays (Poems)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. 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Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters--landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch, the avant-garde spirit informing this book introduced by playwright John Guare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lucky in Kansas\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudy Garland: This is always the worst part\u003cbr\u003e Tin Man: The coming back\u003cbr\u003e Judy Garland: Yes, it fucking sucks, it's depressing as shit\u003cbr\u003e The Lion: Well, we're lucky to still be employed at this farm\u003cbr\u003e Straw Man: I wouldn't call it lucky\u003cbr\u003e The Lion: We were lucky to get back\u003cbr\u003e Straw Man: That's not really lucky either I don't think you know what lucky means\u003cbr\u003e Judy Garland: It's funny what you miss\u003cbr\u003e Tin Man: The running\u003cbr\u003e Judy Garland: The flying\u003cbr\u003e Tin Man: The flying monkeys\u003cbr\u003e Judy Garland: The beautiful flying monkeys above the endless emeralds the unbelievably green world\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Dickman\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMatthew Dickman\u003c\/b\u003e are identical twins who were born and raised in Portland, Oregon. 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Here, as a skateboarding boy practices his kickflip on the street, enlightenment simmers under the surface of both the natural world and the human constructions that threaten it. The rivers shrinking to a trickle, the unaddressed crisis of homelessness, the drug use in a local park: these run side by side with the efforts and structures of families, created mostly by working mothers, with their jumbled bottomless purses and full-time jobs; Dickman's own mother worked at the power company of the title, P\u0026amp;L. 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