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The End Of The West (2009)

by Michael Dickman(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1556592892 (ISBN13: 9781556592898)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Copper Canyon Press

review 1: Some great juxtaposition work. An eye for the scary landing. But mostly that. Then there's the god-awful title poem, and all throughout an awkward crutch on childhood friends shooting up, blazons too of the worst:"Do you think there's a differencefor the Lordbetweenslow dancing in the kitchen at night, no music, your arms around my neck, and latermy facein your ass?"From Franz Wright's blurb: "To me, he is one of the younger American poets who are hiddenly heralding the end of the randomness, the glib irony Rilke strenuously warned against...." No.
review 2: Before reading this book, I had only read Matthew Dickman's poetry (I like it!). I didn't like Michael's poetry as much as his twin brother's, but I still liked his poetry.The subject matter was kind... more of hard to handle. If his work is autobiographical, it sounds like he had a really rough life. He talks a lot about his friends doing heroin when they were pre-teens. There were poems about a lot of his friends dying, and various family members having different types of cancer. Rough.Dickman's poetry has short lines, and most poems have various parts. Sometimes this type of poem seems like each part after the first part is something added that the poet forgot to put in the first. "Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this other thing about the subject matter." I kept thinking the poem ended and then turned the page and saw the poem continued.The poems' short lines made everything seem a bit spindly.My favorites from the book: (I couldn't find any of these poems in their entirety online because they are all pretty long. I found excerpts only.)Dead Friends Come BackInto the EarthScary ParentsReturning to Church less

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