Sleeping as Fast as I Can

Richard Michelson

With humor, anger, and tenderness, Richard Michelson’s poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political—and the deep connections between history and memory.

“Looking back, I think the best two sentences in the book are: ‘Moses hit the rock. I hit Michael Dennis.’ Those are probably the two best sentences I have ever written or will ever write.”

—Harold Fickett