Anti-Realism in Shadows at Suppertime

The poems of "Anti-Realism in Shadows at Suppertime" attempt a broad panorama including free verse, poetry prose, and metric poetry - both including serious and comedy. In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is a position which encompasses many varieties such as metaphysical, mathematical, semantic, scientific, moral and epistemic. The author is to attempting to describe a poetry of similar to an "anti-realism."Michel Delville, the author of a major critical work on prose poetry, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (University Press of Florida, 1998), said of Dickey: "Whether it's a poem about (or around) Mark Rothko's painting Yellow Band or a prose poem about 'Mowing the Lawn' that pauses with Husserl's phenomenology, Dickey's poetry is grounded in a recognition that, to quote Sherwood Anderson, 'each truth [is] a composite of a great many vague thoughts,' all equally beautiful and disturbing, somber and happy."Nin Andrews writes of Dickey's They Say This Is How Death Came into the World that it is "seductively inventive, charmingly clever and seriously witty. The pleasures offered by Paul Dickey's quirky and irreverent meditations are utterly irresistible."Dickey's target audience is generally for undergraduate and graduate students and professors, especially those who are professional creative writing students and teachers.