An edition of All-American Poem (2008)

All-American Poem

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by Matthew Dickman

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An edition of All-American Poem (2008)

All-American Poem

1st ed.

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1 All-American Poem September 1, 2008, American Poetry Review, Distribution by Copper Canyon Press/Consortium Hardcover in English - 1st ed. 0977639568 9780977639564	aaaa Not in Library Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Edition Notes

"Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85).

Published in: Philadelphia, USA, Port Townsend, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 811/.6
Library of Congress: PS3604.I2988 A78 2008,

Contributors

Introduction: Tony Hoagland

The Physical Object

Format: Hardcover
Pagination: xiii, 85 p.
Number of pages: 85

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL23202242M
ISBN 13: 9780977639564, 9780977639540
LCCN: 2008925017
OCLC/WorldCat: 244286904
Library Thing: 8024398
Goodreads: 6767820; 3280203

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Work Description

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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All-American Poem

by Matthew Dickman