Matthew Dickman
Autore di All-American Poem (APR Honickman 1st Book Award)
Opere di Matthew Dickman
Opere correlate
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Dickman, Matthew
- Data di nascita
- 1975-10-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Relazioni
- Dickman, Michael (brother)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada (2015), Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2009)
Utenti
Recensioni
Mayakovsky's Revolver: Poems di Matthew Dickman
i'm no poetry connoisseur, but this is excellent. i don't understand it all or it would probably get 5 stars. the best poetry collection i've read in a while (not that i read all that much poetry; this is the first one of the year for me) and is definitely a keeper. i'd been hearing his name for a few years, but didn't know if i'd like his stuff or not but this book makes me certain i will seek out all of his work.
I read this book as an electronic advance reading copy provided by Edelweiss, and I have submitted my comments to the publisher via that web site.
These brief poems are insightful and often tender, even as they discuss violence and bigotry. Recommended.
Favorite lines:
From Bad Love:
"We keep
lifting beers to our mouths like
weightlifters lifting very small weights."
From Black Flag (one of several poems whose title is also a hardcore band name):
"Who looks at something empty and doesn't think
about what
they could fill it with? No one."… (altro)
These brief poems are insightful and often tender, even as they discuss violence and bigotry. Recommended.
Favorite lines:
From Bad Love:
"We keep
lifting beers to our mouths like
weightlifters lifting very small weights."
From Black Flag (one of several poems whose title is also a hardcore band name):
"Who looks at something empty and doesn't think
about what
they could fill it with? No one."… (altro)
Man. Poetry anthologies usually mostly suck. This one did not mostly suck!!
I really loved almost every poem in this book. Some of them I will probably read over and over again. Some of them made me uncomfortable, but that's not a bad thing. It's powerful. It was slow to read because after every poem I wanted to stop and think. Dickman captures so many truths and situations in such concise and excellent packages, and they are all a pleasure to read.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 232
- Popolarità
- #97,292
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 13
- Preferito da
- 1