I Am That Road

Evoking Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, Martin Dickinson in I Am That Road: New and Selected Poems bears witness to the plight of the every (wo)man, especially those who are recent immigrants to the United States of America. In this drum-beating blueprint of the 21st Century, he documents the struggle to be: to be born, to survive, and, God knows how, to thrive. This is the book to take on a long journey, a silent retreat, your wind down each dark night.  --Karren L. Alenier, author of How We Hold On.

Martin Dickinson is the author of three previous collections of poems Life List Notes (Sligo Creek, 2021); together with his wife, poet Nancy Allinson, What a Windstorm Teaches (Sligo Creek, 2019), and My Concept of Time (Finishing Line, 2014). He was poet of the month for May, 2015 for the online journal Blue Heron Review. Dickinson's poems appear in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, California Quarterly, Innisfree Poetry Journal, the Russian language weekly Kontinent (in translation) and several other print and online journals. He and Nacy live in Friendship Heights, Washington D.C.