{"product_id":"sweet-movie-poems-paperback","title":"Sweet Movie: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlisha Dietzman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVictoria Chang\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What gives us the right to listen to someone else's body?\"--Alisha Dietzman, from \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agency \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e'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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMirroring the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dusan Makavejev's controversial avant-garde film \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), the voices in \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDietzman'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe inspired poems from \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e use film and art to break open seeing. What results are deeply insightful and spacious poems of faith, displacement, and love. Perpetually observant, \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e guardedly but desperately consumes a world that has become unsettling and uncertain.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlisha Dietzman\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSlow Motion Something For No Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, was the editors' choice selection for the Tomaz Salamun Prize. Her poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Raised between Columbia, South Carolina, and Prague, Czech Republic, Dietzman now works as a bartender and server in Sacramento, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151755677831,"sku":"9780807013281","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b868f4b4121e91b79155a52946c995d6.webp?v=1733209408","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sweet-movie-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}