Description: "A National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agency"--
Review Quotes: "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."
--Library Journal, Starred Review
--Victoria Chang, from the foreword "'I didn't expect the desert, its longform, ' writes Alisha Dietzman in her lustrous debut Sweet Movie, 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."
--Quan Barry, author of Auction: Poems "A taut and haunting book of love and faith when all around us hate and nihilism crowd in."
--Philip Metres, author of Shrapnel Maps "Alisha Dietzman is a love poet for the twenty-first century, a fierce, devoted sensualist who feeds on aesthetic experience. . . . Sweet Movie [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."
--Katie Peterson, author of Life in a Field: Poems