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出版Wisp Press, 2011-05
主題Poetry / GeneralPoetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
ISBN06154703949780615470399
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gYelZwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Weaving rituals of self and world, Diorama manages to be at once sensual, metaphysical and alarmingly real. Basile and Morhardt-Goldstein sculpt their own stories, while their works braid to create a single narrative.

PRAISE FOR DIORAMA

"Diorama is a fantastic new chapbook by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein and Lisa Marie Basile. It begins with work by Morhardt-Goldstein, who is a classically trained musician as well as a poet, and whose work here, we are told in the notes, includes some intended for music or informed by music. Her use of language is full of surprise and delight. A fish gallops in his bowl and "wants his feet." The poems are sensual, searching, and deeply sincere. Basile's poems are also beautifully, poignantly sincere. She has a striking sense of imagery, as in, "You are a sloth on me, and I am/ your Cecropia tree." This line comes from a truly wonderful poem called "Letters" (page 25) which you should go read right now. Altogether a stunning little collection - super smart, bold, and a little scary."

-Jennifer Michael Hecht, award-winning author of Funny, The Next Ancient World and Doubt: A History, among others.

"Raw and wrought iron, the poems in Diorama careen between bruise and boost. What is hurt is uncovered, what is wounded is soothed. Here, the body has no end. Sexuality and sound play buzz and moan as this lionhearted debut lights its honest fire."

-Ada Limón, prize-winning poet of Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World and Sharks in the Rivers

"Diorama presents two parallel threads of a lyrical progression - at times starkly haunting, at times lushly sensual - through scenes of intimacy and eroticism, loss and death, set mostly against a backdrop shifting in locus between the South American jungle and the deserts of Central America and the American Southwest. Morhardt-Goldstein's poems are informed by her background in classical music, including one presented as the first movement of a requiem mass, with parts in English and Latin. Her poems move gracefully between dictions, painting moods with landscape and imagery. Lisa Marie Basile writes with both startling immediacy and a taut reserve. Her image-rich poems retain an undercurrent of mystery beneath a disarming veneer of candor. Each poet carries her weight in this joint effort with technical skill and a voice refreshingly unabashed in its directness. This slim volume...is a good introduction to two complementary yet distinctive new voices."

-Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, poet of Les Betes de la Mer and Blue Trajectory (forthcoming, Dancing Girl Press, 2011)