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Winner Of The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.Matthew Dickmans Allamerican 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 Characterfree And Easy And Unselfconscious, 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'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.' Los Angeles Times'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.' New Haven Reviewall 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 Froma Bluecollar Neighborhood In Portland, Oregonto Get His Poems. Also, I Decided To Include Anything I Wanted In My Poems. . . . Pepsi, Mcdonalds, The Word Ass.There Is No One To Save Usbecause There Is No Need To Be Saved.Ive Hurt You. Ive Loved You. Ive Mowedthe Front Yard. When The Stranger Wearing A Sheer White Dresscovered In A Million Beadsslinks Toward Me Like An Oversexed Chandelier Suddenly Come To Life,I Take Her Hand In Mine. I Spin Her Outand Bring Her In. This Is The Almond Grovein The Dark Slow Dance.It Is What We Should Be Doing Right Now. Scrapingfor Joy . . . Matthew Dickman Is The Winner Of The May Sarton Award From The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences, A Poetry Editor Of Tin House, And The Coauthor, With Brother Michael Dickman, Of 50 American Plays. He Lives In Portland, Oregon.
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