Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Ann Fisher-Wirth. The Flash will take place on Sunday, October 11th, at 3 p.m.

Alison Hawthorne Deming's new book of poems, her fourth, is Rope. Her first book of poems, Science and Other Poems, won the 1993 Walt Whitman Award, selected by Gerald Stern, who says of it, "I greatly admire Alison Deming's lucid and precise language, her stunning metaphors, her passion, her wild and generous spirit, her humor, her formal cunning; I am taken, as all readers will be, by the knowledge she displays and how she puts this knowledge to poetic use. . ."

Ann Fisher-Wirth's new book of poems is Carta Marina; Carolyn Forche says it's "at once a lyric triptych of searing beauty and an absorbing novella that turns upon a disclosed secret from a woman's life. The poet becomes a cartographer of the heart as she moves through a year's sojourn in Sweden, lighting candles in her own darkness." Ann Fisher-Wirth's two previous books of poems are Blue Window and Terraces. Among her honors are a Rita Dove Poetry Award and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Rope (Paperback)

By Alison Deming

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780143116363
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 9/2009

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New from a poet renowned for her lyricism, wisdom, and originality, Alison Hawthorne Deming's fourth collection of poems follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life, all linked by the poet's faith in art as an instrument for creating meaning, beauty, and continuity--virtues diminished by the velocity and violence of our historical moment. The final long poem, "The Flight"--inspired by the works of A. R. Ammons--is a twenty-first century epic poised on the verge of our discovering life beyond Earth.

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Genius Loci (Paperback)

By Alison Deming

$20.00

ISBN-13: 9780143035206
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 6/2005

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From a poet and essayist whose writing about nature has won her comparisons with Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams comes a new collection that offers further evidence of her ability to trace the intersections of the human and nonhuman worlds. The title poem is a lyrical excavation of the city of Prague, where layers of history, culture and nature have accumulated to form a genius loci--a guardian spirit.

From Genius Loci:

Return to a place where nothing in particular can be seen to explain why you return, nothing you can name, though you can touch the memory of the landscapea linden trees in a hedgerow, cut wheatfield, ruins of the longhouse, rolling meadow of sunflowers blooming, the musk of their oil, contained heat.

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Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts (Paperback)

By Ann Fisher-Wirth

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780916727567
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Published: Wings Press, 4/2009

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A vivid, strange, and beautiful account of a year in Sweden, this poem represents the ways in which wildness and monstrousness, dream and terror, coexist forever with constructions of order. Inspired by a medieval map of the same name, the poem weaves the gloom of the author's forgotten past with the pain and pleasures of her present life, creating a treatise on motherhood, marriage, love, forgiveness, reconnection, and abandonment.

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