{"product_id":"flies-9781556593772","title":"Flies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat you want to remember\u003cbr\u003eof the earth\u003cbr\u003eand what you end up\u003cbr\u003eremembering\u003cbr\u003eare often two\u003cbr\u003edifferent things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359612043607,"sku":"9781556593772","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593772.jpg?v=1754125174","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flies-9781556593772","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}