All-American Poem
by Matthew Dickman
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A collection of poems by award-winning author Matthew Dickman that celebrate daily life in America.
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All-American Poem
September 1, 2008, American Poetry Review, Distribution by Copper Canyon Press/Consortium
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed.
0977639568 9780977639564
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"Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 85).
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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 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.’”
*There is no one to save us
because there is no need to be saved.
I’ve hurt you. I’ve loved you. I’ve mowed
the front yard. When the stranger wearing a sheer white dress
covered in a million beads
slinks toward me like an over-sexed chandelier suddenly come to life,
I take her hand in mine. I spin her out
and bring her in. This is the almond grove
in the dark slow dance.
It is what we should be doing right now. Scraping
for joy . . .*
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