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Flies

Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves.

What you want to remember

of the earth

and what you end up

remembering

are often two

different things

Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first book of poems, The End of the West, appeared in 2009 and became the best-selling debut in the history of Copper Canyon Press. His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 81
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781556593772
  • Genres
  • poetry, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2011