Description:
"By turns tender, heartbroken, enraptured, delighted, angry, melancholy--all the turns of human family life."--Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic life.
Brief description: Matthew Dickman is the award-winning author of Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Review Quotes: The greater than human world and the mundanely human are bound up in this book. Accomplices in horror and happiness. Dickman relays a dailiness examined so closely it often alters into something almost strange, like that bizarre moment you attend to the steps of an oft-repeated action and note, with anatomical, perhaps even scatological, precision, how wild and wonderful it is to be alive.--Camille T. Dungy "Orion"