{"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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alisha Dietzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e National Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807013281","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439207157897,"sku":"9780807013281","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1dab9750-de72-4912-9f22-8bd714cf694f.jpg?v=1715810209","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/sweet-movie-poems-9780807013281","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}