"Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality."[...]
From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark.[...]
This two-volume set documents American-born, Berlin-based sculptor Jason Dodge's (born 1969) 2013 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. The first volume is comprised of installation shots; the second includes an exchange between Dodge and poet Matthew Dickman.[...]
Entering its seventh year, "Best New Poets" has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems[...]
Winner of the "American Poetry Review"/Honickman First Book Award."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-[...]