All-American Poem

Name: All-American Poem
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ISBN: 9780977639540

ISBN-10: 0977639541

ISBN-13: 9780977639540

Edition: 2008

Authors: Matthew Dickman, Tony Hoagland

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: American Poetry Review, The
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem, winner of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the coauthor with Michael Dickman of 50 American Plays. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

TONY HOAGLAND is the author of three poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.