Part of me feels like "Well, hell, there's already a ton of reviews of this one, so people are obviously reading it" but another part of me knows that all of the praise is well-deserved. Dickman's collection is cohesive, it all feels "just right" in its place here. It's a collection I would assig...
I bought the book on a trip to Virginia, and started reading it while waiting for a table to become available at a pub in Williamsburg, and I pretty much started crying in the middle of the pedestrian mall. I cry every time. That, I believe, is the mark of a good poet. I'd go on about all the thi...