Join us on Tuesday, July 19th at 7pm PT when Matthew Dickman celebrates his new collection, Husbandry, with Tomas Moniz at 9th Ave!
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Or watch online by registering at the link ABOVE
Praise for Husbandry
"Husbandry's image-world has recalled for me what language really is and does in the deepest epochs of living. It is rare to encounter a genuine poetics of separation and single-parenthood, still rarer one which consecrates the drudgery and the glittering revelations of nurture from a position of candid interiority. Everyone is equal in this book, with the innocent justice life offers at the outset." - Rachel Cusk, author of Second Place
"Joseph relegated to holy backdrop. Vader's chilling confession to a wounded Luke. Fathers undervalued, hastily drawn, overly romanticized, dismissed, dramatized, overlooked. Fathers called upon to be substitute everythings, then commanded to be less than shadows. Matthew Dickman's signature lyricism electrifies this new fractured phase of his life story, as a suddenly solo father who witnesses the visceral but tender unreeling of family, who must daily redefine his root as both father and son, and whose utterly stubborn love for his children reveals the chaotic, ungolden work of parenthood." - Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art
"In a clear, spare voice, Husbandry contemplates the joys and struggles of domestic life, detailing many luminous moments of fatherhood." - Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation
About Husbandry
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic life.
Guided by acclaimed poet Matthew Dickman's signature "clarity and ability to engage" (David Kirby, New York Times), Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. Written after a separation and during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, Husbandry refuses romantic notions of parenting and embraces all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth.
Dickman composes these poems entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. He explores the terrain of his children's dreams and nightmares, the almost primal fears that spill into his own, and the residual impacts of his parents' failures. Threading his anxieties with bright moments of beauty and gratitude, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the domestic work--repetitive, exhausting, and sublime--of sustaining three lives.
With tender, aching precision, Husbandry reveals the poet's hunger to be a husband without ever being one, and his search for a father that ends with becoming one himself.
About Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Tomas Moniz
Tomas Moniz is a father, writer, teacher, and performer. His debut novel Big Familia was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award! He edited Rad Dad, Rad Families, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He's an Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He resides in Oakland, CA.
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Or watch online by registering at the link ABOVE
Praise for Husbandry
"Husbandry's image-world has recalled for me what language really is and does in the deepest epochs of living. It is rare to encounter a genuine poetics of separation and single-parenthood, still rarer one which consecrates the drudgery and the glittering revelations of nurture from a position of candid interiority. Everyone is equal in this book, with the innocent justice life offers at the outset." - Rachel Cusk, author of Second Place
"Joseph relegated to holy backdrop. Vader's chilling confession to a wounded Luke. Fathers undervalued, hastily drawn, overly romanticized, dismissed, dramatized, overlooked. Fathers called upon to be substitute everythings, then commanded to be less than shadows. Matthew Dickman's signature lyricism electrifies this new fractured phase of his life story, as a suddenly solo father who witnesses the visceral but tender unreeling of family, who must daily redefine his root as both father and son, and whose utterly stubborn love for his children reveals the chaotic, ungolden work of parenthood." - Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art
"In a clear, spare voice, Husbandry contemplates the joys and struggles of domestic life, detailing many luminous moments of fatherhood." - Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation
About Husbandry
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic life.
Guided by acclaimed poet Matthew Dickman's signature "clarity and ability to engage" (David Kirby, New York Times), Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. Written after a separation and during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, Husbandry refuses romantic notions of parenting and embraces all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth.
Dickman composes these poems entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. He explores the terrain of his children's dreams and nightmares, the almost primal fears that spill into his own, and the residual impacts of his parents' failures. Threading his anxieties with bright moments of beauty and gratitude, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the domestic work--repetitive, exhausting, and sublime--of sustaining three lives.
With tender, aching precision, Husbandry reveals the poet's hunger to be a husband without ever being one, and his search for a father that ends with becoming one himself.
About Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Tomas Moniz
Tomas Moniz is a father, writer, teacher, and performer. His debut novel Big Familia was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award! He edited Rad Dad, Rad Families, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He's an Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He resides in Oakland, CA.
Join us on Tuesday, July 19th at 7pm PT when Matthew Dickman celebrates his new collection, Husbandry, with Tomas Moniz at 9th Ave!
Masks and Proof of Vaccination Required
Or watch online by registering at the link ABOVE
Praise for Husbandry
"Husbandry's image-world has recalled for me what language really is and does in the deepest epochs of living. It is rare to encounter a genuine poetics of separation and single-parenthood, still rarer one which consecrates the drudgery and the glittering revelations of nurture from a position of candid interiority. Everyone is equal in this book, with the innocent justice life offers at the outset." - Rachel Cusk, author of Second Place
"Joseph relegated to holy backdrop. Vader's chilling confession to a wounded Luke. Fathers undervalued, hastily drawn, overly romanticized, dismissed, dramatized, overlooked. Fathers called upon to be substitute everythings, then commanded to be less than shadows. Matthew Dickman's signature lyricism electrifies this new fractured phase of his life story, as a suddenly solo father who witnesses the visceral but tender unreeling of family, who must daily redefine his root as both father and son, and whose utterly stubborn love for his children reveals the chaotic, ungolden work of parenthood." - Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art
"In a clear, spare voice, Husbandry contemplates the joys and struggles of domestic life, detailing many luminous moments of fatherhood." - Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation
About Husbandry
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic life.
Guided by acclaimed poet Matthew Dickman's signature "clarity and ability to engage" (David Kirby, New York Times), Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. Written after a separation and during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, Husbandry refuses romantic notions of parenting and embraces all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth.
Dickman composes these poems entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. He explores the terrain of his children's dreams and nightmares, the almost primal fears that spill into his own, and the residual impacts of his parents' failures. Threading his anxieties with bright moments of beauty and gratitude, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the domestic work--repetitive, exhausting, and sublime--of sustaining three lives.
With tender, aching precision, Husbandry reveals the poet's hunger to be a husband without ever being one, and his search for a father that ends with becoming one himself.
About Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Tomas Moniz
Tomas Moniz is a father, writer, teacher, and performer. His debut novel Big Familia was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award! He edited Rad Dad, Rad Families, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He's an Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He resides in Oakland, CA.
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Masks and Proof of Vaccination Required
Or watch online by registering at the link ABOVE
Praise for Husbandry
"Husbandry's image-world has recalled for me what language really is and does in the deepest epochs of living. It is rare to encounter a genuine poetics of separation and single-parenthood, still rarer one which consecrates the drudgery and the glittering revelations of nurture from a position of candid interiority. Everyone is equal in this book, with the innocent justice life offers at the outset." - Rachel Cusk, author of Second Place
"Joseph relegated to holy backdrop. Vader's chilling confession to a wounded Luke. Fathers undervalued, hastily drawn, overly romanticized, dismissed, dramatized, overlooked. Fathers called upon to be substitute everythings, then commanded to be less than shadows. Matthew Dickman's signature lyricism electrifies this new fractured phase of his life story, as a suddenly solo father who witnesses the visceral but tender unreeling of family, who must daily redefine his root as both father and son, and whose utterly stubborn love for his children reveals the chaotic, ungolden work of parenthood." - Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art
"In a clear, spare voice, Husbandry contemplates the joys and struggles of domestic life, detailing many luminous moments of fatherhood." - Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation
About Husbandry
An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic life.
Guided by acclaimed poet Matthew Dickman's signature "clarity and ability to engage" (David Kirby, New York Times), Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. Written after a separation and during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, Husbandry refuses romantic notions of parenting and embraces all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth.
Dickman composes these poems entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. He explores the terrain of his children's dreams and nightmares, the almost primal fears that spill into his own, and the residual impacts of his parents' failures. Threading his anxieties with bright moments of beauty and gratitude, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the domestic work--repetitive, exhausting, and sublime--of sustaining three lives.
With tender, aching precision, Husbandry reveals the poet's hunger to be a husband without ever being one, and his search for a father that ends with becoming one himself.
About Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky's Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Tomas Moniz
Tomas Moniz is a father, writer, teacher, and performer. His debut novel Big Familia was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award! He edited Rad Dad, Rad Families, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He's an Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He resides in Oakland, CA.
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