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Resistance fantasies : poems / by Diane Thiel.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.H4418 R475 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thiel, Diane, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 97 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ashland, Ore. : Story Line Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Thiel uncovers layers of meaning in the evocative title-from resistance against regimes and oppression, to explorations of our darkner natures, to our inner trysts with longing and desire. The book continues themes from Thiel's critically acclaimed "Echolocations," connecting personal with historical, language with lineage, and the effects of war on future generations, but visits new physical and emotional terrains-the Black Sea, the double edge of resistance. Thiel achieves a unique lyrical intensity. Her blend of myth and history, gravity and humor, passion and compassion, and the explicit with the suggestive makes Thiel's poetry hard to resist.
- Diane Thiel teaches at the University of New Mexico.
- Contents:
- I. Black Seas
- Black Sea Acrostic 15
- Daphne (A Photograph, 1930) 16
- Iphigeneia (Sapphics from Tauris) 17
- Medea in Colchis 18
- Tomb of Persephone 20
- Baba Yaga 21
- If You Don't 22
- Catacombs (Under Odessa, 1943) 24
- The Muse 26
- Sevenlings for Akhmatova 27
- Pushkin and the Black Sea 28
- Elegaic Labors 29
- II. Resistance Fantasies
- Power Outage 33
- A Knife 34
- Women of Souli 36
- Killing Time 37
- Wild Horses, Placitas 38
- Rural Aubade 39
- Punta Perlas, Nicaragua 40
- Night Lyrics 41
- Imperial War Museum, London 42
- Bridges 43
- Continuum 44
- Resistance Fantasies 45
- III. Lost in Translation
- Context 49
- Growing up German in Miami Beach 50
- Night Letter 52
- Housekeeping 53
- Nursery Shellgame 54
- The Fitting 56
- The Cottage 58
- Lightning Rod 59
- Fresh Water Furnace 61
- Learning Math 62
- To My Brother Miguel 63
- Ancestral Burden 64
- Another Changeling 65
- Lost in Translation 66
- IV. Editorial Suggestives
- Two Correspondences 71
- Letter from Constanta 72
- Naked 73
- Ursa Major in the Hall 74
- Instinctive 75
- Letter Never Sent 76
- Retreat 77
- Lines About Love 79
- Blue Heron 80
- Three Blues 81
- Immortal Gossip 83
- Aerodynamics 85
- Editorial Suggestive 86.
- ISBN:
- 1586540394
- 1586540386
- OCLC:
- 56123703
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