{"product_id":"sweet-movie-isbn-9780807013281","title":"Sweet Movie","description":"\u003cb\u003e“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”—Alisha Dietzman, from \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirroring the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dušan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e by Victoria Chang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of a Documentary About the Polygon Test Site\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNocturne (Slovakia)\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of Prague\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e—Giotto di Bondone\u003cbr\u003eYet\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealing “Laying On of Hands” Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e—Russell Lee\u003cbr\u003eMuseum(s)\u003cbr\u003eMuseum(s)\u003cbr\u003eThou Holdest Mine Eyes Waking\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator\u003cbr\u003eGosha Rubchinskiy x the Poem\u003cbr\u003eGosha Rubchinskiy x Timur Novikov\u003cbr\u003eWe Did Not Know Much About That City\u003cbr\u003eDušan Makavejev’s \u003ci\u003eW.R.: Mysteries of the Organism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by Train Light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Margin of a Floating Structure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of Eternity and a Reality TV Show About Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStern\u003c\/i\u003e—Marlene Dumas\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfa\u003c\/i\u003e—Marlene Dumas\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy\u003c\/i\u003e—Marlene Dumas\u003cbr\u003eMiracle(s)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoly Sonnets\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of the Desert\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by Yellow Light\u003cbr\u003eTwo Pale Verses\u003cbr\u003eDušan Makavejev’s \u003ci\u003eLove Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Love\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Love\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Love\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 3\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem Without Light\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of the Documentary \u003ci\u003eHoly Ghost People\u003c\/i\u003e\/Ars Poetica\u003cbr\u003eLove Poem by the Light of Something Obvious\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e—Giotto di Bondone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The poems in \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e are wrought with beauty and being in the world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Victoria Chang, from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘I didn’t expect the desert, its longform,’ writes Alisha Dietzman in her lustrous debut \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Quan Barry, author of \u003ci\u003eAuction: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A taut and haunting book of love and faith when all around us hate and nihilism crowd in.”\u003cbr\u003e—Philip Metres, author of \u003ci\u003eShrapnel Maps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alisha Dietzman is a love poet for the twenty-first century, a fierce, devoted sensualist who feeds on aesthetic experience. . . . \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e [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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Katie Peterson, author of \u003ci\u003eLife in a Field: Poems\u003c\/i\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 Tomaž Šalamun 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.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301808787685,"sku":"NP9780807013281","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807013281.jpg?v=1767737661","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sweet-movie-isbn-9780807013281","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}