{"product_id":"flies","title":"Flies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone--\u003ci\u003eFlies\u003c\/i\u003e renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating.\"--James Laughlin Award citation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, \u003ci\u003eFlies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat you want to remember\u003cbr\u003e of the earth\u003cbr\u003e and what you end up\u003cbr\u003e remembering\u003cbr\u003e are often two\u003cbr\u003e different things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Dickman\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the West\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2009 and became the best-selling debut in the history of Copper Canyon Press. His poems appear frequently in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9781556593772-001","offer_id":43775164350525,"sku":"9781556593772-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/5501543482742.jpg?v=1791303451","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/flies","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}