Allen & Unwin Brother book Poetry English Paperback 96 pages

The multi-award winning Dickman twins are from America's outstanding generation of younger poets. This dual-authored collection brings the two stylistically-different poets together to reflect on the death of their older brother.

The multi-award winning Dickman twins are from America's outstanding generation of younger poets. Their poetry lives take different expression. Matthew writes with the ebullience of Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; Michael with the control of William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson. But they are unified by the unflinching, remarkable verse they wrote when their older brother took his own life. It is these moving, grieving but life-affirming poems that solely comprise this dual-authored volume.

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008), 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, Copper Canyon Press, 2012), Mayakovsky's Revolver(W. W. Norton & Co., 2012), Wish You Were Here (Spork Press, 2013) and 24 HOURS (One Star Press, Paris, France, 2014). He is the recipient The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College and a 2015 Guggenheim award. His poems have appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, The Believer, London Review of Books, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Poetry London among others. Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.Michael Dickman was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of three books of poems, The End of the West, Flies (Winner of the James Laughlin Award), and Green Migraine, as well as a book of plays, 50 American Plays, co-written by his twin brother, Matthew Dickman. He lives in Princeton, NJ, where he teaches poetry writing at Princeton University.