Results for "Dickman, Michael"

The award-winning poet returns to his homeplace in the Pacific Northwest, where the neighborhood simmers with the chemical presence of human trouble and sparks of beauty coexist with danger.This image-driven, sound-driven collection carries us to the working-class Portland neighborhood of Lents, whe... Read More about Pacific Power & Light: Poems

Winner of the 2010 James Laughlin Award as the best second book of poems in America.... Read More about Flies (Lannan Literary Selections)

"Reading Michael Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."--The New Yorker "These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."--The Believer... Read More about Green Migraine

"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. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality."... Read More about 50 American Plays (Poems)

Twenty poems by Michael H. Dickman, transformed into a fictional autobiography of recently deceased poet Frank Arcanity. With notes written by an equally fictional critic who uses the opportunity to repay Frank for real or imagined injuries. Two artists contributed four drawings each to illustrate t... Read More about The Later Verses of Frank Arcanity: Scenes from a fictional life (Emerging Artist #1)

"Dickman's book moves with careful intensity as it confidently illuminates buried, contemporary suffering."--Publishers Weekly "Elizabeth Bishop said that the three qualities she admired most in poetry were accuracy, spontaneity, and mystery. Michael Dickman's first full-length collection of poems d... Read More about The End of the West (Lannan Literary Selections)