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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…
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