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Sweet Movie: Poems
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“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”—Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet MovieA National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agencySweet Movie’s love poems and ekphrasis echo splintered versions of the same question: how do we navigate a world where the expectations of our performance—our presentation, our means of existence—are dictated by the viewers themselves?Mirroring the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dušan Makavejev’s controversial avant-garde film Sweet Movie (1974), the voices in Sweet Movie are equal parts docile, feverish, and violent. This collection reimagines a feminist approach to religious masochism to explore the ways women are denied agency by both their faith communities and by outsiders.Dietzman’s poems move through locations across Central Europe and the American South. Each new landscape informs the next: Memphis appears in Berlin in the form of a dead deer, and Southern syntax haunts an elegy for Gustavs Klucis.The inspired poems from Sweet Movie use film and art to break open seeing. What results are deeply insightful and spacious poems of faith, displacement, and love. Perpetually observant, Sweet Movie guardedly but desperately consumes a world that has become unsettling and uncertain.
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| Weight | 0.11 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.69 × 13.97 × 3.85 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 |
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| Year Published | 2023-10-17 |
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| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 0807013285 |
| About The Author | Alisha Dietzman is a PhD candidate in Divinity focusing on aesthetics and ethics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, supported by a grant from the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Her chapbook, Slow Motion Something For No Reason, was the editors’ choice selection for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, and The Iowa Review. Raised between Columbia, South Carolina, and Prague, Czech Republic, Dietzman now works as a bartender and server in Sacramento, California. |
“A rich and thought-provoking collection. Poetry lovers and Dietzman fans will want to read these poems over and over again and can find something new to enjoy or admire each time.”—Library Journal, Starred Review“The poems in Sweet Movie are wrought with beauty and being in the world.”—Victoria Chang, from the foreword“‘I didn’t expect the desert, its longform,’ writes Alisha Dietzman in her lustrous debut Sweet Movie, a collection centered around ekphrasis. TV, movies, the self, even art and religion, serve as mediums on which the speaker casts the light of consciousness in her search for meaning.”—Quan Barry, author of Auction: Poems“A taut and haunting book of love and faith when all around us hate and nihilism crowd in.”—Philip Metres, author of Shrapnel Maps“Alisha Dietzman is a love poet for the twenty-first century, a fierce, devoted sensualist who feeds on aesthetic experience. . . . Sweet Movie [is] a book on the run—from men, from religion, from family, from legacies of violence against women—and it wants you along for the ride. And it’s thrilling.”—Katie Peterson, author of Life in a Field: Poems |
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| Table Of Content | Foreword by Victoria Chang1Love Poem by the Light of a Documentary About the Polygon Test Site2Nocturne (Slovakia)Love Poem by the Light of PragueThe Last Judgment—Giotto di BondoneYetHealing “Laying On of Hands” Ceremony—Russell LeeMuseum(s)Museum(s)Thou Holdest Mine Eyes WakingLove Poem by the Light of the RefrigeratorGosha Rubchinskiy x the PoemGosha Rubchinskiy x Timur NovikovWe Did Not Know Much About That CityDušan Makavejev’s W.R.: Mysteries of the OrganismLove Poem by Train Light3The Margin of a Floating StructureLove Poem by the Light of Eternity and a Reality TV Show About LoveStern—Marlene DumasAlfa—Marlene DumasLucy—Marlene DumasMiracle(s)4Holy SonnetsLove Poem by the Light of the DesertLove Poem by Yellow LightTwo Pale VersesDušan Makavejev’s Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard OperatorBig Love Vol. 1Big Love Vol. 2Big Love Vol. 3Love Poem Without LightLove Poem by the Light of the Documentary Holy Ghost People/Ars PoeticaLove Poem by the Light of Something ObviousThe Last Judgment—Giotto di BondoneAcknowledgmentsNotes |
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