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"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone—Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."—James Laughlin Award citation
"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
Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, 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.
- Sales Rank: #1493874 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-11
- Released on: 2012-12-11
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From Publishers Weekly
Few poetry debuts found more attention than Dickman's The End of the West: the difficult working-class childhood he shared with his twin brother, Matthew (also a poet), and the twins' memorable early acting careers prompted a long profile in the New Yorker. Fortunately, the verse itself did measure up: the nightmarish intensities of his terse and fractured lines, their zigzags between religious transcendence and confessional shame, won Dickman a great deal of admiration. This second collection may not surprise, but it won't disappoint. Scarily clipped or deliberately awkward to reflect the extremes he feels, Dickman looks into the depths of his psyche, remembering his dead older brother, other dead relatives, and the omnipresent fact of death: "At the end of one of the billion light years of loneliness// I stuff my mom and dad into a little red wagon and drag them out into the ocean// Waves the color of their eyelids." The poems at their best might frighten their author, and their reader too: "You're going to die anyway and not just because it's natural but because they want you to," Dickman exclaims: no wonder he says, elsewhere, "I want to burn down the forest/ that's been growing/ all night/ in my brain." (May)
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"This is only [Michael] Dickman’s second book...he already seems a major American talent."—New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Michael Dickman: Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His debut volume of poetry, The End of the West, appeared in 2009. He has received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Writing Toward Resolution, and Grace
By Glynn Young
A death too soon is always a tragedy. A death too soon in the family changes the family forever. And what if that death too soon is a suicide?
The suicide of an older brother is one the primary themes of Michael Dickmann's "Flies," a collection of spare, sparse, concisely worded poems that create the ravaging of one's memory and soul in the face of a brother's death. The poems become a narrative means of resolution, and one means Dickmann employs to do that is the language and imagery of faith and religion.
In the very first poem, "Dead Brother Superhero," he evokes both a typical childhood memory - playing a superhero - and the need for salvation:
You don't have to be
afraid
anymore
His super-outfit is made from handfuls of oil and garbage blood and
pinned together by stars
Flying
around the room
like a
mosquito
Drinking all the blood
or whatever we
have
to save us
who
need to be saved.
The poems move forward - and there's a definite motion forward, toward some yet undefined moment or goal or idea - until reaching a series of 14 poems entitled "Stations," a poetic rendering of the Stations of the Cross. It is in this series that a kind of confrontation happens, for the poems combine the sacred and profane, anger with hope, frustration with resistance with surrender. Consider the fifth poem in the series:
What does the little cross want with us anyway?
To grind us into diamonds
To make us dance
To tear our arms off and throw them out into the yard like sticks
I need help carrying these sticks
The diamonds
Dancing
The little cross hunches in the corner and stares and drools
coughing up white petals
It never takes its hundred eyes off us
When we feint to the left the little cross feints to the left
To the right to the right
When we call to our mothers
The little cross answers.
Dickmann moves ultimately to resolution, and achieves grace, the grace of coming home and achieving peace with one's own soul. Yes, a death too soon changes everything, but survivors can work their way home.
"Flies" is a remarkable collection of poetry. It won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, which is given to support and commend a poet's second book. (His first collection, "The End of the West," was published in 2009.) His poem "Returning to Church," not in this collection, was selected by Narrative Magazine for the 2008 Narrative Prize.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Flies
By P.H.
These poems are surreal but tediously so; random fragments with an occasional emergent theme (primarily the suicide of the author's brother), but not particularly moving or impressive as poetry, alas.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Smart and incredibly evocative while superbly understated
By Kyrux Macist
Smart and incredibly evocative while superbly understated. Similar in tone but polar opposite in style of his brother, Matthew Dickman. These two have quickly become two of my favorite working poets.
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