Full name: Wonderland: Poems

Author: Matthew Dickman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393634068 039363406X

"Known for poems of universality of feeling, expressive lyricism of reflection, and heartrending allure" (Major Jackson), award-winning poet Matthew Dickman returns with a collection that engages the traces of his own living past, suffusing these poems with ghosts of longing, shame, and vulnerability. In the southeast Portland neighborhood of Dickman's youth, parents are out of control and children are in chaos. With grief, anger, and, ultimately, understanding, Dickman confronts a childhood of ambient violence, well-intentioned but warped family relations, confining definitions of identity, and the deprivation of this particular Portland neighborhood in the 1980s. Wonderland reminds us that, while these neighborhoods are filled with guns, skateboards, fights, booze, and heroin, and home to punk rockers, skinheads, poor kids, and single moms, they are also places of innocence and love. Similar books: Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell In My Head by J. M. Storm I Heard God Laughing by Hafiz Devotions by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Counting Descent by Clint Smith Dead Man's Float by Jim Harrison Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson Without by Donald Hall Winter Morning Walks by Ted Kooser Alma, or The Dead Women by Alice Notley Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay