{"product_id":"books-sweet-movie-by-alisha-dietzman","title":"Sweet Movie","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat gives us the right to listen to someone else's body? -Alisha Dietzman, from\u0026gt;\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 Makavajev's controversial avant-garde film\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003e(1974), the voices in\u0026gt;\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\u0026gt;\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\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Perpetually observant, \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e guardedly but desperately consumes a world that has become unsettling and uncertain.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509925536017,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780807013281.jpg?v=1778169769","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-sweet-movie-by-alisha-dietzman","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}