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Biography
Born August 20, 1975 in Portland, Oregon Earned an MFA from University of Texas Works with his twin brother who is also a poet but they have very different styles Started writing poems in sophomore year of high school First full-length collection, All American Poem, won the 2008 American Poetry Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry Author of 2 chapbooks and 2 full-length poetry collections
Influences
Deeply influenced by Anne Sexton after finding her To Bedlam and Part Way Back in the library Later on influenced by Koch and OHara Mostly fascinated about the fact that a poem can be written about anything Encountered Allen Ginsberg at a book signing and exchanged information and poetry
All-American Poem
Attempt to find the capacity of the metaphorical human heart Include everything he can into the poems: love, sex, loneliness, etc. All poems have the same form: single block stanza with varying sentence lengths across line breaks that control the momentum of the poem and allow the sentences to roll
Repetitions of the phrase slow dance occur without specific patterns but to bring the readers the objective of the poem
Eagleton
Pace (Ch 5.4) seamlessly flowing pace of the poem like a slow dance Short pauses like the pauses and rotations during a dance Act as transitions to another idea
Eagleton
If two words are associated by their sound [], this will also tend to yoke their meanings together; but it may also highlight their differences of meaning [] (Ch3.3 pg57)
A poetic text is rich in information because each of its elements [] is located at the intersection of several overlaid systems (Ch 3.3, pg 57)
Citations
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/2213 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/matthew-dickman http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fa ct_mead http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/05/matthewdickman.html http://www.zyzzyva.org/2011/05/23/a-fight-against-themeanness-in-this-world-qa-with-matthew-dickman/ http://toastedbear.blogspot.com/2011/06/matthew-dickmanis-poet-that-writes-in.html