Paper Cranes Dinah Dietrich 9780692585924 Books
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“I write for those women who do not speak,” said Audre Lorde. But in the case of Paper Cranes, Dinah Dietrich writes as a lesbian speaking for herself, with delicacy and honesty, about her journey from silence to speech. The poems are situated in a diminished present, remembering childhood and family, painful and pleasurable moments, like the red paper crane of the title poem which gave her “the gift of experience / the gift of memory.” With the utmost economy, a small stanza can evoke a lifetime of deprivation “In my room at home, / I struggle for light. / The plants strangle / at the small window.” With a fine ear and a light touch, Dietrich courageously charts a course back to life from the brink of death. For those of us who have been to this outsider’s hell, it’s a comfort to hear the voice of a sister traveler.
Paper Cranes Dinah Dietrich 9780692585924 Books
This is a beautiful book. Her journey, from "small strips/ of light leaked in/ along the window edges" to "I am wild at night/in my apartment/making peanut butter toast,/making a poem" is elegantly told. With just the right words, it is easy to feel her pain and her pleasure. Many of us can relate to Dinah's vivid memories.Thank you, Amazon, for making this book available.Product details
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Paper Cranes Dinah Dietrich 9780692585924 Books Reviews
Dinah Dietrich’s “Paper Cranes” is a small collection of some 21 poems. Dietrich finds herself understanding and accepting her own sexual orientation as she quietly explores the relationships she has had with her individual parents and her grandmother. The grandmother comes off a bit better than the parents, but there is acceptance here, and judgment giving way to kindness.
Water
I cup my hands together,
drink the cold water
that runs into my hands
from the tap on the sink
I stand in the hospital bathroom,
and drink,
imagining
the small stream of fresh water
that flowed once,
in the Adirondacks,
upstate New York
my mother taught me
how to cup my hands and drink,
imagining she could teach me
how stones can flavor water
In this poem, we don’t know who is in the hospital, or even what kind of hospital it is. But a hospital implies illness, and a few of the other poems suggest this is an illness involving a mother. You can read it one way – the poet is the hospital patient – or read it another – the poet is visiting someone in the hospital. The perspectives, as in many of Dietrich’s poems, conjures up very different images and understandings.
Dietrich writes poetry, memoir, and fiction. Her poems have been published in such literary magazines as The Berkshire Anthology and Sinister Wisdom and in the anthology A Slant of Light. She received her B.A. in literature from Bennington College and her M.A, in Literature fro the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She lives in upstate New York.
"I am wild at night/in my apartment/making peanut butter toast/making a poem." The poems in PAPER CRANES use straightforward language, telling the stories of a woman's life that is not so straightforward after all. "I’m so mad my hair could burst into flame" A witness to her own lesbian life, the simple narrative language is heightened by color, anger, and memory. Hard to pick but perhaps my favorite line in the book is, "My dolls got sick and vomited/while he built forts."
This is a beautiful book. Her journey, from "small strips/ of light leaked in/ along the window edges" to "I am wild at night/in my apartment/making peanut butter toast,/making a poem" is elegantly told. With just the right words, it is easy to feel her pain and her pleasure. Many of us can relate to Dinah's vivid memories.Thank you, , for making this book available.
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