{"product_id":"sweet-movie-poems-9780807013281","title":"Sweet Movie: Poems","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554871513362,"sku":"9780807013281","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0fdb59a-1dde-44b3-8752-a45beecc99b5.jpg?v=1731724801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-movie-poems-9780807013281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}