“Matthew Dickman’s all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior intellectual pretensions; really, I think, they are spiritual in character — free and easy and unself-conscious, lusty, full of sensuous aspiration… . We turn loose such poets into our culture so that they can provoke the rest of us into saying everything on our minds.” — Tony Hoagland, APR/Honickman First Book Prize judge