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April / May 2004 poetry selection for Poetry Talk discussion group

ECHOLOCATIONS by Diane Thiel

Publication Details Paperback: 80 pages; Publisher: Story Line Press; ISBN: 1885266979; In-print Editions: Hardcover & Paperback.

Reviews
Library Journal - Winner of the 13th Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, this work is laced with memories of Thiel's German heritage, often alluding matter-of-factly to a shameful historic past. Her poems address the guilt of a nations and people who bear a violent history. "It will take many lifetimes/ to reclaim this language of my childhood," she says in "Traume" after listing the names of villages whose names are equated with concentration camps. Thiel disperses the silence of those who were the oppressors and takes responsibility for the wrongs into the present. Miraculously, the poems do not plunge into utter despair. In fact, it is re-hearing that brings redemption: "Our languages returning to the sounds / The calls reverberating through the waters/ to navigate the depths, to guide us through/ one ocean to another, the dark indigos,/ the song returning from the deepest blues." Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Poetry Magazine - Thiel loves the language she does have; she'll use it to make poetry out of a different time and place.

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A look inside - See sample pages of this book on Amazon.com.

Web site - Go to Diane Thiel's Web site http://www.dianethiel.net/ to find out more about her and her work, as well as to hear her read some of her poetry.

Where to find it? Suggestions -

• Amazon.com has both new & used copies.
• Purchase directly from Story Line Press.
• Alibris.com has used copies for sale.
• Look for it online at your local bookstore.
• Your local library may also have copies, as it's recommended in the Library Journal.

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