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'Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind.'The New Yorker'These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings.'The Believer'My master plan is happiness,'writes Michael Dickman in his wonderfully strange third book, Green Migraine. Here, imagination and reality swirl in the juxtaposition between beauty and violence in the natural world. Drawing inspiration from the verdant poetry of John Clare, Dickman uses hyper-real, dreamlike images to encapsulate, illustrate, and illuminate how we access internal and external landscapes. The result is nothing short of a fantastic, modern-day fairy tale.From'Where We Live':I used to livein a mother now I livein a sunflowerBlinded by the silverwareBlinded by the refrigeratorI sit on a sidewalkin the sunflower and its yellowdownpourMichael Dickman is the winner of the 2010 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for his second collection, Flies. His poems are regularly published in the New Yorker. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and teaches poetry a

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Author

Michael Dickman

Publisher

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556594519

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.96 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13