Days & Days

Praise for Days & Days

“With nuanced juxtapositions, skillful interruptions, and repetition that heightens the wit, [Dickman’s] poems careen through point-of-view shifts and elucidate a sometimes bleak but familiar interiority, lending language to isolation.” —Danielle Vermette, The Oregonian

“A kaleidoscope of images surfacing for air out of our commercialized landscape. This acute poet’s sharp, spare lines bring forward otherwise-missed moments in our common experiences . . . The poignant heart of this skilled collection is the long poem ‘Lakes Rivers Streams,’ an astounding poem that when read in one go pulls the reader in as if he or she is caught in a river’s strong current. The flotsam and jetsam of the tactile and the ardent congruity of being human and alive ripple through this skillfully navigated poem . . . Dickman offers a gentle swirl of rediscovered everydayness, and, after all, isn’t that what poetry should do on occasion, realign the everyday anew?” —Raúl Niño, Booklist