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by: Matthew Dickman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780977639540
ISBN: 0977639541
Label: American Poetry Review
Manufacturer: American Poetry Review
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Publisher: American Poetry Review
Sales Rank: 97452
Studio: American Poetry Review
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'Matthew Dickman's all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior intellectual pretensions; really, I think, they are spiritual in character-free and easy and unself-conscious, lusty, full of sensuous aspiration. . . . 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
All American Poem 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.''
There is no one to save us
because there is no need to be saved.
I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed
the front yard. When the stranger wearing a sheer white dress
covered in a million beads
slinks toward me like an over-sexed chandelier suddenly come to life,
I take her hand in mine. I spin her out
and bring her in. This is the almond grove
in the dark slow dance.
It is what we should be doing right now. Scraping
for joy . . .
Matthew Dickman is from Portland, Oregon, and has been honored with writing fellowships from the Michener Center, Vermont Studio Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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