{"product_id":"all-american-poem-9780977639540","title":"All-American Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\/Honickman First Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\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\u003eplumbs 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\u003ebecause there is no need to be saved.\u003cbr\u003eI've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed\u003cbr\u003ethe front yard. When the stranger wearing a sheer white dress\u003cbr\u003ecovered in a million beads\u003cbr\u003eslinks toward me like an over-sexed chandelier suddenly come to life, \u003cbr\u003eI take her hand in mine. I spin her out\u003cbr\u003eand bring her in. This is the almond grove\u003cbr\u003ein the dark slow dance.\u003cbr\u003eIt is what we should be doing right now. Scraping\u003cbr\u003efor 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Dickman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Poetry Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780977639540","brand":"American Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439354974345,"sku":"9780977639540","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/all-american-poem-9780977639540","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}