Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 2011)

Publisher Marketing: “Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone–Fliesrenders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating.”–James Laughlin Award citation

Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet,Fliespresents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman’s poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves.