awards:
Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2009)
APR/Honickman Prize (2008)
books:
All-American Poem
lots of neat posts
january 24, 2009
Yeah, last month, around this time, I recommended the Matthew Dickman poems that appeared in APR. And, again, I come across his poems in the Winter 2008 issue of Tin House,
and I say tender. Or how about self-conscious tender. Or, well,
sincere, but smart enough to know that sentimentality would be a sticky
syrup interfering with the authority of the speaker, but still earnest,
and for this poem at least, genuinely affectionate. These Matthew
Dickman poems, what is this electric, this tension he makes?
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december 17, 2008
The poems in the November/December issue of American Poetry Review
are so exciting. The ironic play on emotion (crying over a picture of
cows, for instance) is almost too much affect, but the intention, to
really address a surging and continually present emotion, makes me
interested in playing along. It's strange to feel as though I could be
distanced from an emotion but still serious about that emotion.
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